Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion
11:00 am
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome all our guests and commend them on the excellent work they have done. Obviously, huge opportunities and risks are associated with the use of AI in post-primary education. I would have thought the opportunities relate, as Ms Kelleher mentioned, to assisting people to learn and assisting teachers to teach people and prompt them in a certain way.
The risks, however, seem to be universally identified with a fear that people will use it to do assessment work or present themselves as having knowledge they do not have. In what way does Ms Kelleher believe there will be opportunities for teachers to teach using AI? What benefits will it have for kids in secondary school?