Wake schools revisits proposed AI policy ahead of fall 2026 launch :: WRAL.com

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The Wake County Public School System plans to train teachers on generative artificial intelligence later this year, as it rolls out a more-detailed-than-most policy on the technology.

Tension has continued to grow over generative AI’s impact on learning, and how and whether schools are policing appropriate generative AI use. The technology has inevitably found a place in some schoolwork, and education leaders are still grappling with how to teach students about generative AI but also keep students intellectually honest.

The school board has been mulling a policy for more than a year but has gone several months without discussing it. Now, district leaders are hoping for an approved policy by the start of the next school year. The school board’s policy committee is set to get an update about it Tuesday afternoon.

The school board hasn’t discussed the topic since October, and it’s in the minority of school boards in North Carolina without an artificial intelligence policy.

Most school boards use the same two stock paragraphs recommended to them by the North Carolina School Boards Association. They outline that employees and students will be trained on generative AI, what it does, its limits and how to use it effectively and ethically. The language also says district officials will adopt guidelines for its use, though those guidelines aren’t contained in policy.

Wake is attempting a more detailed policy that largely outlines commitments to the same things: generative AI literacy for staff and students, safeguards for use and training. It considers its “guiding principles” to be ethics, student access, student success and well-being, and maintaining humans at the center of…

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