UK Government Launches £4m AI Initiative to Assist Teachers

New project aims to reduce teacher workload by training AI on curriculum-specific data for marking and lesson planning.

The initiative will create a content bank of official educational resources to train AI tools.
AI models will be developed to increase accuracy in marking from 67% to 92%.
A competition will award £1m to developers with the best AI tools for educational use.
Teachers broadly support AI for reducing administrative tasks but emphasize it cannot replace human interaction.
Parents express concerns about data privacy and the impact on teacher-student relationships.