This week the government announced that every teacher across the country will benefit from new AI tools - speeding up lesson planning and reducing workloads - so that they can focus on what they do best - teaching.
This includes £2 million investment in Oak National Academy to improve and expand AI tools for teachers and marks the first step towards providing every teacher with a personalised AI lesson-planning assistant. The Oak National Academy was established to support teachers with high-quality curriculum resources online, to create new teaching tools using AI and marking the first step towards providing every teacher with a personalised AI lesson-planning assistant.
This follows a pilot of an AI-powered quiz builder and lesson planner where teachers have provided positive feedback from the initial testing, noting the tools’ ability to help them to speed up planning and refine existing materials. With 30,000 teachers already using Oak every week, the resources will support teachers to save valuable time on planning.
Commenting, Richard Fuller MP said:
This is just one part of the UK government's approach to harnessing and developing AI as well as resolving the many questions and challenges that go hand in hand with this new technology.
The Prime Minister took a bold and challenging step to organise the world’s first global AI summit last week.
Artificial Intelligence- a term that has become much more commonplace in conversation over the past year or so - is one of those issues that desperately needs a global framework to resolve the challenging questions that it’s deployment will raise in coming years. I applaud the Prime Minister for facing down those who criticised his efforts to include China. This is essential if any global effort is to have any sustained viability,
The announcement by the US of their own, independent, effort should not come as a surprise. The US is after all home to many giant tech firms. But the US approach complements rather than undermines the U.K. approach. The US will be a valuable source for ideas about regulation but it will not be the ultimate arbiter, for the very reason that it is currently so dominant.
The Prime Minister must persevere with his efforts, stay open for all nations and businesses to participate and he must leverage the UK's strong heritage in both the core technologies that underpin AI and in international law that can govern its regulation.
