Munich (dpa/lby) – To prevent attempts at deception in schools by chatbots with artificial intelligence (AI), the Ministry of Education also relies on the use of computer programs. “Basically, the problem is not new, “attempted fraud has always been an issue in schools,” said Minister of Education Michael Piazolo (Freie Wahler) on Thursday at the request of the German Press Agency in Munich. “As so often, our teachers, who know and can assess their own students and their performance well, play a key role.”
At the same time, the task culture will become even more differentiated in the future. “For example, even more task formats will be developed that focus on the students’ own creative performance and their reflective handling of content and make the learning and solution process transparent,” emphasized Piazolo. Accompanying verbal discussions and reports on submitted student work are also conceivable for control purposes.
“In addition, the first software solutions are already available that can detect the use of chatbots. These programs will certainly be improved and further developed in the near future,” said Piazolo.
Thanks to a sophisticated AI, so-called chatbots such as “ChatGPT” can now also write essays, poems, letters and all kinds of other texts on command without this being recognizable for human readers. Critics therefore fear that in the future homework and schoolwork will also be increasingly written by artificial intelligence.
For Piazolo, however, AI systems are not just a problem in everyday school life. “Of course, we are also aware of the challenges that AI programs mean for schools, especially when it comes to exam formats.” At the same time, the AI ??programs could also do a lot of preparatory work and relieve the burden of research required to check and verify the results. The same applies to presentations, for example. AI does not replace understanding, processing and applying what has been learned.”
The possible areas of application and challenges of AI technologies are currently being tested in the “KI@School” school experiment, in which 15 schools from all over Bavaria are taking part. In addition, many further training opportunities for teachers are offered.
