A survey conducted by education law firm Browne Jacobson has found that only 8% of more than 200 school and academy trust leaders feel adequately prepared to effectively implement AI, and only 9% said that they have an AI strategy in place (with 31% saying a strategy was in development).
Furthermore, 75% are worried that they do not have adequate AI expertise in their organisation.
In particular, respondents – who included school leadership, executive headteachers, and academy trust CEOs – are concerned about issues including plagiarism (65%), training (62%), quality control (58%), data security (57%), and safeguarding (44%).
However, despite these findings, 50% of the leaders said they are already using AI tools in their work, including 20% who use it regularly (29% are not using AI at all and 21% use it rarely).
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