Professor Alan Smeaton:

Generative AI offers huge possibilities to support students with all kinds of backgrounds, including neurodegenerative issues, for example, for autism support. I am thinking of what I see at university level, there are wonderful opportunities for taking the content material and having it represented to students based on their favourite or their most suitable kind of media.

Student support services in some universities, including mine and probably others, are looking at generative AI tools as a way to repurpose and redeliver content to support students. This is a fairly straightforward process. Looking at how generative AI in particular may be used, there is a good deal of research ongoing. The national forum for teaching and education is looking at it very actively. There is no single new tool which is available and which solves everybody's problems. It needs to be done at an individual level. I know those activities are happening. They tend to happen at a low, almost underground, level rather than appearing in flashing lights.