Children as young as 4 may take AI lessons at a prestigious private school in London.

Children as young as four may take AI lessons at a prestigious private school in London.

one of London’s leading schools is to introduce artificial intelligence lessons to help children cope with rapidly evolving technology.

The £26,000-a-year Alleyn’s School in Dulwich will launch an “AiQ” course for children aged four and up in September. Headteacher Jane Lunnon said the school was meeting the AI ​​challenge head-on, adding: “Education doesn’t come from sticking your head in the sand and pretending something doesn’t exist. Sometimes it comes from dealing with really hard things.”

Pupils in Reception and Years 7 and 12 will be the first to take weekly lessons when the course – which is named after IQ, the traditional concept of intelligence, and AI – in the new academic year. Finally, all students will study the subject.

In preparation for the launch, the school established an AiQ department and appointed an AiQ leader.

The aim of the course is for students to explore and develop the cultural, emotional, ethical, and moral intelligence they will need to navigate the world of AI. When designing the course, teachers thought about the skills children would need in the 1940s, when the current intake cohort enters the workforce.

Ms Lunnon said: “Some schools are thinking about how AI technology is changing the way they teach. But we are interested in another question – how might this change the way we think? What does that do to the imagination of a four-year-old when everything he could imagine appears? Those are pretty tough questions.”

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The course will be divided into six areas: entrepreneurship, moral intelligence, technological confidence, critical thinking, creativity and collaboration, and sustainable thinking.

As part of the course, children will learn about “deep fakes” and how to recognize reality and truth, as well as how they can be manipulated, Ms Lunnon said. She added: “Anything new and radical is obviously something you have to be careful about. If we weren’t concerned about the potential risks of this technology, we’d be plain stupid. But I don’t think that when you’re facing a risk, the solution is to pretend it’s not happening.”

She said people “would be surprised” how much AI is already being used in schools, adding: “I think there will be very, very few teenagers in the country who haven’t tried it.”

A survey of Alleyn’s parents found that 70 percent think their children don’t understand the implications and risks of AI. Ms Lunnon said: “We have children who use technology but don’t necessarily understand it or realize the risks, so this course seems really critical.”

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