Guidance Written with Help From AI
The Illinois State Board of Education released new guidelines recently on how schools should and should not use artificial intelligence in K-12 education.
One of the most notable aspects of the AI guidelines, however, is that it was written with help from popular AI programs including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
Bill Curtin, Illinois policy director for the nonprofit advocacy group Teach Plus, one of the groups that pushed for the guidance, called that an example of how AI should be treated in academic fields.
“Upfront, they said, ‘We did use AI,’ and they were very clear and specific about how they used AI,” Curtin told Capitol News Illinois. “And that actually builds trust because these days you can look at almost anything that anyone writes and wonder if it's AI. It's much better when, upfront, you say: ‘We did use AI, and here's where, and here's where the human element is really still seen in this guidance.’” Growing Concerns Over AI
