A Guernsey headteacher has changed the school curriculum to include Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of its potential impact on the futures of students.
Daniele Harford-Fox said The Ladies College used a custom-made AI agent to help Year 7 students set themselves targets.
She said staff also used an internal version of Microsoft Copilot with added restrictions to ensure safe learning.
“There are fundamental questions about whether [the education system] is going to still be relevant to this industrial revolution,” she said.
Ms Harford-Fox said recent AI models, such as Chat GPT-4, were capable of writing work better than most A-level students and Guernsey teachers were concerned about verifying their work.
She said: “If AI can write a better essay than most students, the real question is why are we spending seven years of a student’s life teaching them how to write essays?”
The States does not have a specific policy which covers AI use in schools, but its online safety guidance refers users to Guernsey’s data protection laws.