CXC to develop regional policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) 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 ahead of the release of CXC examination results on Tuesday.