“G7 Education Ministers Address Risks of Generative AI in Teaching”

EL NUEVO DIARIO, TOKYO.- The G7 Education Ministers agreed today to work to improve training in digital skills and called to “mitigate the risks” derived from the application of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching such as ChatGPT.

The “challenges and opportunities” brought by new technologies in education were one of the central issues discussed during the Group of Seven ministers’ meeting held over three days in the Japanese cities of Toyama and Kanazawa.

In the joint declaration adopted at the end of the meeting, the participants pledged to improve “educational environments to effectively integrate information and communication technologies”, following a trend accelerated by the pandemic.

Along the same lines, the digital skills of teachers and students will be promoted to help the latter “to become responsible and informed users capable of facing new opportunities and challenges”.

The application of new technologies is considered “a complement, but not a replacement” for in-person teaching, since face-to-face education and face-to-face teacher-student interactions “remain essential for the future of education,” he notes. the text.

The ministers will “continue to assess the challenges and mitigate the risks related to the promotion of digital technologies in education,” including the use of “generative AI for educational purposes,” the statement added.

The Group of Seven also stresses the need to strengthen educational systems to “adapt them to the post-pandemic world” and to “recover lost educational opportunities” resulting from the global health crisis.

In this context, the role of schools is recognized as “critical infrastructures for building a diverse and inclusive society” and as places that offer opportunities for “collaborative learning”, “where children feel safe and accepted”, and that also They act “as a safety net.”

The ministers also committed to “restore the mobility of students and their interactions” to the pre-pandemic level both in compulsory education and in professional and university training.

The declaration of the G7 Education Ministers will serve as the basis for the conclusions of the summit of leaders of this group of countries that will take place between the 19th and 21st in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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