Half-listening to the news on BBC Radio 4 this morning, I was jerked to full attention during the regular quick look at the front pages of today’s UK newspapers. The Times has a front-page report declaring that the International Baccalaureate (IB) allowing students to use artificial intelligence to help them write their essays as long as they credit the AI used.
News to me!
Quick checks: the BBC News website includes front-page views of today’s newspapers (for a limited time only, possibly for copyright reasons). I took a screengrab.
The headline reads: Exams body lets pupils use AI chatbot to write essays.
The Times website carries the story as well – unfortunately behind a paywall, and The Times is not a newspaper to which I subscribe.
A quick Google check for [artificial intelligence international baccalaureate] – using the News feature and limiting the search to the last week found just one mention of the story –
![Google search [artificial intelligence international baccalaureate]](https://www.read2live.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/google-news-search-AI.jpg)
the story in today’s The Times. There are several stories of students being punished for using artificial intelligence, even in IB schools.
Checks on the open IB website and in the closed-access My IB find no mention of this. It looks as if The Times has a world exclusive! (The thought that the newspaper had fallen victim to a hoax crossed my mind.)
Having bought a print copy of the newspaper, I wonder about the accuracy of the headline Exams body lets pupils use AI chatbot to write essays – that “lets” may be a trifle misleading. It implies that the IB already allows students to use AI in their work for assessment. The second paragraph states
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