Unesco calls for action to address risks of using AI in education system

Artificial Intelligence robot. [Getty Images]

Less than 10 per cent of schools and universities follow formal guidance on using wildly popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools, like the chatbot software ChatGPT, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), which hosted more than 40 ministers at a groundbreaking online meeting on Thursday.

The ministers exchanged policy approaches and plans while considering the agency's new roadmap on education and generative AI, which can create data and content based on existing algorithms, but can also make alarming factual errors, just like humans.