AI teachers could be launched in schools as early as this summer in a controversial scheme targeting teenagers whose parents cannot afford private tuition.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson who has given the green light for ‘AI labs and EdTech (education technology) companies’ to create and test ‘AI tutoring tools’ in secondary schools says they will ‘take tutoring from a privilege of the lucky few to every child who needs it’.
Tools being considered as part of the new £23m scheme are an AI chatbot which asks and answers pupils’ questions and tools which even analyse and monitor their progress.
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