Wake School Board promotes AI, debating railings in the first generative policy of AI

The members of the Wake County School Board agree that students and teachers must use artificial intelligence, but they will always deliver potential railings designed to ensure that students always learn by themselves and use the technology in a responsible manner.

“When do we worry about students losing the ability to understand how to do work, to get these learning goals?” The chairman of the board of directors, Chris Heagarty, asked.

But the council must also be practical, said Toshiba Rice, member of the board of directors.

“Sometimes we fear what we don't know,” she said. “There must be a level of teaching and training,” she added. “I think our society is changing. That's what it is.”

Wake County Board of Education began to discuss its first generative policy of artificial intelligence Wednesday, take a step towards the formalization of the district approach to use technology that upsets work and education worldwide.

This is a technology that the school system has tried to kiss, rather than blocking, as some school systems initially did when Chatgpt was launched for the first time in November 2022.

“If we prohibit and block them, we do not provide any safe or measured use of these tools,” said Allison Reid, principal director of learning and digital libraries in the district.

A final policy will probably take months to finalize, said the member of the board of directors Lynn Edmonds, who chairs the political committee. Edmonds said that she had received many questions from voters about what the school board would do with AI but not many suggestions. Edmonds herself says that she has a lot of duties to do on how other school boards, colleges or educators can effectively tackle AI.

“We know that is something we have to do, and it was a good first conversation, but just the start,” she said after the meeting of the political committee on Wednesday.

Artificial intelligence is “generative” when it responds to the entry of users, such as generation of an image when a person requests it.

Informally, the school system has adopted students to use how to use a generative AI. A policy would establish a coherent set of directives for all schools, accessible to the public to students and parents.

The Politics Project stems largely from that created by the North Carolina School Boards Association, sent to school districts for examination in March 2025. The Wake School District decided not to recommend it to the Board of Directors at the time, although the district embraces certain educational uses. Since then, the Superintendent Robert Taylor has ordered the system to propose a policy, telling them that the district needed it.

Most school boards in the Center de la Caroline du Nord have adopted two stock paragraphs in this recommended policy, according to a Wral News review of more than two dozen political textbounds from the School Board. They describe that employees and students will be trained on a generative AI, which it does, its limits and how the OT will use it effectively and ethically. The language also indicates that district officials will adopt directives for its use, although these directives are not contained in the policy.

The alarm clock would be one of the first to adopt an autonomous policy on the generative AI.

Wake's policy project encourages students and teachers to use a generating AI, but would force them to be trained on “the effective, ethical and safe use of generative AI tools”. He promises to have guarantees to “ensure privacy, integrity and inclusion and promote a continuous culture of innovation”. This would partly include students to cite their use of generative AI in their work and not to allow employees to share personal identification information for students to certain AI systems.

The policy project stresses, however, that the generative will not replace humans. The generative AI would add to what humans can do.

“Emphasis is placed on the automation of routine tasks, to free teachers to make art and personal and human sciences only from teaching and connection with our students,” said Reid. This could mean focusing on using AI to develop more personalized instructions for students, she said.

“While adopting technological progress such as AI, the district stresses that these tools should amplify human capacities and not replace the role of students and educators who educate, maintain and evaluate students,” said the political project. “Maintaining human surveillance is essential in evaluation and reflection on the content generated by AI for learning and performance.”

Generative AI can assume many roles in schools. Students can use it as a learning tool, but teachers and administrators can also use it to speed up a large part of the work they do.

Throughout the country, the way schools and colleges manage a generative AI across the country is still emerging.

To curb the use of generative AI to cheat or do the homework of a student for them, some teachers do more paper and pencil tests or oral presentations. This remains a concern among educators.

It is also one of the main concerns of members of the school board.

Some school councils have specified in policy that the copy of the language generated by artificial intelligence constitutes a plagiarism. The Wake School Board policy project would force students to cite its use, for example, of tests.

“This is not a question,” said Heagarty. “They are, they really learned to solve the problem? And this is what I worry the most, with the use of AI that arrives and in replacement of academic work.”

Rice was less worried than Heagarty, arguing that in many cases, students must have enough knowledge on a subject to put an invite that would generate an answer.

But schools must teach positive use of AI if they want it to be used positively, she said.

“It's not about having a policy,” she said, “but it's about implementing politics.”