A Cabinet minister has said it is okay for children to use ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools to do their homework, provided they do so with “supervision”.
Science Secretary Peter Kyle said he supported children doing their homework with AI if they were “using it the right way,” and the tools could be used to “overcome barriers” for neurodivergent children.
“We need to make sure that kids and young people are learning how to use this technology and integrate it into their learning development,” he told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.
Kyle said there were children with “real talents” who could use AI to “turbocharge” their learning and “give them a challenge they’re not getting in other places.
“And in the same classroom, you can have kids with neurological barriers to learning that could have their innate barriers overcome and assisted with,” he continued.
“So we need to help people use this, but it should never be a replacement for the expertise of teaching. That’s the key thing. We need to get it right.”
The Science Secretary made the comments while discussing the Government’s AI action plan, which will be unveiled on Monday.
He told the Observer that he wanted the UK to be at the “cutting edge” of AI technology rather than “buying off the shelf from others”.
“We are the third largest AI market in the world, but we’re not touching the sides of our potential.”
The details of the plan are yet to be announced, but Kyle was adamant that attracting tech investment would not come at the cost of weakening safety standards.
He said: “The threshold for these laws allows responsible free speech to a very, very high degree. But I just make this basic point: access to British society and our economy is a privilege. It’s not a right.
“And none of our basic protections for children and vulnerable people are up for negotiation… Safety is not something that is pitted against economic investment.”
Speaking to Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, he said the goal of the plan would be to bring together Britain’s AI sector to make it “more than the sum of its parts”.
Kyle added that “all the constituent elements” of the success of Silicon Valley in the US were available in the UK, but currently, they were “not coming together.
“What we want to do is bring those things together and coordinate it with a new unit that reports directly to myself and the Prime Minister so that we can bring together and make the most of these assets,” he continued.
However, he acknowledged that AI could ” disrupt ” British jobs in the future but insisted that it would “also create a lot of new jobs.”
“If it’s used wisely, it will make workers’ lives in the workplace much more efficient, effective and satisfying. Some of the mundane tasks will be taken care of,” Kyle added.
“I’m not someone who thinks we should just sit back and let this technology wash over our economy and pick up the pieces afterwards.
“We got into Government for a reason. We’re a Labour Government. We want to make sure that everyone from every background uses this technology safely, and safety is baked in at the outset, but we fully explore the potential, and we use the power of Government to make sure that equity is baked in at the outset.”
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