Artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT to be allowed in Australian schools from 2024

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Artificial intelligence including ChatGPT will be allowed in all Australian schools from 2024 after education ministers formally backed a national framework guiding the use of the new technology.

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06 Oct 2023

The framework, revised by the national AI taskforce, was unanimously adopted at an education ministers meeting on Thursday. It will be released in the coming weeks.

On Monday the federal education minister, Jason Clare, told the Today show that ChatGPT was “not going away” and had become similar to the “calculator or the internet”.

“We’ve got to learn how to use it,” he said. “Private schools are using it now. Kids are using it right across the country. They’re using it to do their homework … we’re playing catch-up, to be honest, here.”

Since the AI program ChatGPT was released late last year, Australia’s education sector has grappled with how to respond to the technology, from embracing it as a learning tool to blanket bans and returning to pen-and-paper exams.

Every state and territory excluding South Australia moved to temporarily restrict ChatGPT