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/

AI Research - Apostles, Agnostics and Atheists