Using his own artificial intelligence (AI) tool, a Bristol University student hopes to prevent cheaters from utilising essay-writing bots.

After being requested to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with education for a project on his university degree, Ed Daniels, 22, started the software start-up AIED.UK. Using his own artificial intelligence (AI) tool, a Bristol University student hopes to prevent cheaters from utilising essay-writing bots. After being requested to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with education for a project on his university degree, Ed Daniels, 22, started the software start-up AIED.UK.

Following a project in his undergraduate course that prompted him to merge AI with education, Ed Daniels, 22, started the software start-up AIED.UK. Once ChatGPT gained popularity, the Bristol University fourth-year student claimed that he felt the need to “defend the academic system.” His app can tell if an essay was produced with artificial intelligence.

He added: “Right now the best models, you have to pay for, you have to pay £20 a month to have GPT 4 and it is a lot better, so it provides affluent kids with a huge advantage. The goal of the programme is to eliminate inequality in academic settings.x

“It worries me that some people may not have access to that stuff, so we need to level the playing field.”

As a necessity for all companies, according to Mr Daniels, AI will eventually “have to provide students access to AI tech, just like they offer us printer credits,” because the goal of higher education is to prepare students for the workforce. Until then, he said he thinks of AIED.UK as a “transitional phase” to prevent cheating whilst universities adapt to new technologies.

- Ad -