Children are using artificial intelligence software to write essays for them, says teacher - Wales Online

School children are using free online artificial intelligence (AI) software to write essays and poetry for them, as well as university applications and even art projects, a teacher told Parliament. Lord Hampton, who is a working teacher in a north London state school, said an A-level product design student of his even generated degree-level designs in minutes using AI. He warned peers in the House of Lords that conversations around AI dominated by issues of plagiarism and intellectual property miss the fact that the curriculum needs to catch up with a changing world. The independent crossbench peer said: "There is a lot of anecdotal evidence, at the moment, that suggests that students are using AI for everything from essays and poetry to university applications and, rather more surprisingly, in the visual arts subjects. Just before Christmas, one of my product design A-level students came up to me and showed me some designs he'd done. "He'd taken a cardboard model, photographed it, put it into a free piece of software, put in three different parameters and had received, within minutes, 20 high-resolution designs, all original, that were degree level - they weren't A-level, they were degree level.