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UNESCO released its first advice on the use of Generative AI (GenAI) for education on Thursday, encouraging governmental bodies to regulate the technology's usage, including data privacy protection and setting an age restriction for users.
Launched in November by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, GenAI chatbot ChatGPT has become the world's fastest growing app to date, prompting the launching of competitors like as Google's Bard.
Students have also flocked to GenAI, which can produce everything from essays to mathematical formulas using only a few lines of instructions.
"We are struggling to align the speed of education system transformation to the speed of change in technological progress and advancement in these machine learning models," Stefania Giannini, assistant director-general for education, told Reuters.
"In many cases, governments and schools are embracing a radically unfamiliar technology that even leading technologists do not claim to understand," she explained.
UNESCO emphasized the need of government-sanctioned AI curriculum for school education, technical and vocational education, and training in a 64-page study.
"GenAI providers should be held accountable for ensuring adherence to core values and lawful purposes, respecting intellectual property, and upholding ethical practices, while also preventing the spread of disinformation and hate speech," according to UNESCO.
It also advocated for the prohibition of GenAI, which would deprive learners of opportunities to build cognitive talents and social skills through real-world observations, empirical procedures like experiments, interactions with other people, and independent logical thinking.
While China has developed GenAI laws, the European Union's AI Act is expected to be ratified later this year. Other countries are far behind in developing their own AI legislation.
When adopting GenAI, the Paris-based agency also aimed to defend teachers' and researchers' rights as well as the value of their activities.