This post summarizes a research article (17 page PDF) offering "an analysis of the preceding three years of policy developments in England leading to the AI tutoring tools and testbed policy programs." In England, "experimental futuring has been put into practice through (1) proof of concept prototyping and (2) pilot testing, with the anticipated outcome being (3) scaling of a standardized model of AI tutoring with expected impacts on schools nationwide." However, cautions Ben Williamson, "The proposal of a national AI tutoring standard in England continues to run against the idea that AI may be a contested technology, a source of sociotechnical controversy, or a social and public problem deserving of wider democratic deliberation." It's not clear that the future of AI will "straightforwardly" enough to support the linear model of progress envisioned by this approach. See also: AI Opportunities Action Plan, Generative AI in education.
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