Starmer's AI rollout in schools could mean UK students are taught by 'best teacher in the world'
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Keir Starmer has announced a huge public rollout of artificial intelligence in a plan to boost growth and improve living standards and make Britain "one of the great AI superpowers". That includes unleashing AI power in our schools - which experts claim could revolutionise education and make Brits TEN TIMES smarter.
Derek Haoyang Li, the founder of educational platform Squirrel AI, believes that advances in the technology could mean school pupils will soon be taught by "the best teacher in the world" by capturing the knowledge of millions of experts and forming personalised lesson plans - while allowing human teachers to spend more time with their students rather than replacing them.
Squirrel AI's virtual tutors intelligently process billions of books, images and video to bring together wisdom from the very best teachers in the world, he says. The AI teacher then gets to know each individual pupil, breaking down subjects into thousands of knowledge points in order to spot gaps in students’ understanding and help them learn.
Mr Haoyang Li says: “It can imitate the best teacher in the world, like Da Vinci plus Einstein, to give every student in the world equal education.”. He adds: “I think education could be dramatically changed by AI. The human brain could be 10 times smarter.”.
And it could allow pupils in poorer countries, in particular rural areas where school provision is poor, to receive the same teaching as in the best schools. Mr Li believes that AI is the future of learning – but stresses that the technology will help human teachers have more time for their pupils rather than replacing them. “In the future, the teacher will be like a pilot,” he says. “They should know how to use AI to take people to a better place.”.
