(Charlotte Blease, YUP, £18.99)
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For many working in the education profession, their considerations of Al's pros and cons will be largely centred on how it can enable instances of student plagiarism, or potentially reduce the burden of teachers' admin.
In the comprehensive and highly readable Dr Bot, Blease tackles a far wider range of issues, albeit some that are particularly apposite for those working in schools. Why, she posits, are doctors often loath to use Al, even when it has the capacity to be extremely helpful?
She goes on to explore how some patients can be more willing to open up and share personal information with Al bots than with human doctors, thus enabling medical staff to get an unfiltered picture of what's actually going on in patients' lives.
Could this form of triage be an approach we might one day see echoed in schools? The resulting impact on test results could certainly be interesting.
This review was first published in Teach Secondary magazine.
