CXC developing regional policy on AI

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on Monday said it has embraced artificial intelligence (AI) and is now creating the environment for academic integrity and safeguarding against “intellectual laziness”.

CXC's Registrar and chief executive officer, Dr Wayne Wesley, said AI is something of interest to the region's premier examination body, adding “in fact we have embraced artificial intelligence.

“We believe…what we need to do is to create the environment with the requisite safeguards, academic integrity, safeguarding against what I call intellectual laziness. In other words you want persons to develop cognitively,” he said in an interview on the state-owned DBS Radio.

'We want to also ensure that the information being created by AI is verifiable and accurate, so to prevent the hallucination that it tends to do,” said Wesley, who is leading a CXC delegation in Dominica ahead of the release of CXC examination results on Tuesday. 

"What we are currently doing for the region is creating a generative regional AI policy for the secondary education system.  Some work has been done in Guyana at the tertiary level and some work has also been done at the University of the West Indies for how AI should be governed and we are now doing it for the regional secondary education system that will provide the kind of guidance and framework within which teaching, learning and assessment could be properly governed and utilised within the education system,” he added.

CXC was established in 1972 under Agreement by the participating governments in CARICOM and provides regional and internationally recognised secondary school leaving examinations relevant to the needs of the region.

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