ChatGPT to be used in school lessons in Austria

In New York, the use of OpenAI's text AI has already been banned. In Austria, however, there are ideas to improve source criticism skills through the chatbot.

The Austrian Ministry of Education sees it as the responsibility of schools to integrate new technologies into the classroom and "ultimately make them part of the teaching content themselves," according to a report by futurezone.at. This also applies to ChatGPT, a text AI that is already frequently used by schoolchildren. Students are not allowed to cheat with the AI, of course, says the Ministry of Education. However, a ban like the one in the U.S. state of New York is not planned.

Teachers must now be intensively informed, according to the Austrian Ministry of Education. The chatbot is to be used in perspective to set tasks adapted to the respective learners through "adaptive learning." As futurezone reports, such programs are already being integrated into teacher training courses. Teaching and learning materials, for example on source criticism, are also already being tested in the classroom. This is because ChatGPT's answers, while often eloquent, are not always correct. In Germany, too, the respective state ministries are now planning the proper use of ChatGPT. In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, the chatbot is also unlikely to be banned, writes the tagesschau. Rather, the app is already part of the state's digital training offensive.