Mr. Seán O'Sullivan:

Taking assessments as an example, in-person assessments will have to be weighted more than more continuous ones. Maybe continuous assessment could be done in the form of in-class assessments where the teacher is overseeing because AI is not being used for that. Some of the most capable language models we have are behind paywalls and subscriptions. While they do have free access, it is extremely limited. With Anthropic's Claude 3.5, a paid subscription allows someone to make five times more requests to the model.

Moving forward, AI has incredible opportunities. It is already being used by Moderna, for example. That is completely outside education, but it is accelerating so many aspects of our world already and in education it will incredible for students. If you are doing a homework assignment and do not completely understand what you covered in maths that morning, you could, if your teacher uploads problem sets, upload them and attach them to ChatGPT, Claude or Google's Gemini and they can provide a personalised experience tailored to you to help you understand that content.

When it comes to assessing people it will probably have to go back to in-person. Our education system is a filtering system and these are all hurdles people have to jump over. For example, if you are applying to college abroad there are standardised exams. I think we will see in-person assessments weighted far more heavily and if it is continuous it will still be continuous, but it will be done in person.