Mr. Seán O'Sullivan:

There is a prevalent lack of AI understanding among teachers and students inside of our secondary school environment. While I have not done a survey on this, from my own experience, the vast majority of my teachers have not even tried ChatGPT. There is a predominately negative rhetoric around how AI might hinder teachers from their own unique processes of teaching. Training is required. I am not sure whether that burden can be placed on the companies which are developing these frontier models, but it is something that needs to be explored. AI can help teachers with lesson plans. Large language models are incredible for ideation. There has been a lot of research in which used large language models have been used to just generate lists upon lists of ideas. A rules-based system can then go through and decide which of these ideas are actually feasible. For teachers, this could be applied to lesson plans and to personalising the learning experience for each student. There is currently a lot of potential in this area. From my own experience, my teachers just have not been exposed to the technology to explore it.