AI Research - Apostles, Agnostics and Atheists

This week we cover a range of AI in Education related news and academic research papers. Here's all the links you need to read more about each of the topics we dicussed: News Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard In September the Australian Government published: Voluntary AI Safety Standard (68pg): https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard Proposals paper for introducing mandatory guardrails for AI in high-risk settings: https://consult.industry.gov.au/ai-mandatory-guardrails Stanford's STORM https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/ Students give English HSC exam an F over use of image with 'hallmarks' of AI https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/16/nsw-hsc-english-exams-2024-ai-image-paper-1 Investigation into the use of ChatGPT by a Child Protection worker - Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner https://ovic.vic.gov.au/regulatory-action/investigation-into-the-use-of-chatgpt-by-a-child-protection-worker/   Research Papers To what extent is ChatGPT useful for language teacher lesson plan creation? https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09974 Have We Reached AGI? Comparing ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to Human Literacy and Education Benchmarks https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09573 The Life Cycle of Large Language Models: A Review of Biases in Education https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11203 The Future of Learning: Large Language Models through the Lens of Students https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12723 How to Mitigate the Dependencies of ChatGPT-4o in Engineering Education https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12693 StuGPTViz: A Visual Analytics Approach to Understand Student-ChatGPT Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12423 Apostles, Agnostics and Atheists: Engagement with Generative AI by Australian University Staff https://eprints.qut.edu.au/252079/