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AI teachers to be unleashed in UK classrooms as early as this summer
- UK to pilot AI tutoring tools in secondary schools this summer, starting with 13–15-year-olds.
- Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson approves 'AI labs and EdTech' to create and test tutoring tools in secondary schools.
- Campaigners warn the plan could amount to experimenting on disadvantaged children and risk unsafe AI systems.
- Campaigners want AI strictly as a tool to assist, not replace, human teachers.
- The scheme is part of a £23 million funding package to develop safe, personalized AI tutoring tools.
- Officials say AI tutoring would help level the playing field for pupils who cannot access private tutoring.
- Unions call for robust human monitoring and safeguards for SEND students.
- The government frames AI tutoring as a safe testing ground before wider rollout next year.
- Education leaders and unions urge that AI be used only as an aid to teachers, not a replacement.
- The scheme targets approximately 450,000 pupils across the UK.
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