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Hampden-Wilbraham school committee endorses AI-use guideline emphasizing privacy, accessibility and teacher training
Summary
A district committee approved a two-track AI guideline that allows staff research use without student PII, requires student-facing tools to meet student-data protections, bans deepfakes and AI-assisted harassment, and calls for teacher training and verification practices.
Members of the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District school committee on Thursday endorsed an AI-use guideline that separates staff research tools from student-facing AI, bans impersonation and deepfakes, and emphasizes verification, accessibility and training.
Presenter outlined a "two-track" approach, saying staff "are free to use AI" for professional research so long as they "provide no student specific personally identifiable information," and that any AI tools teachers direct students to must conform to the district's student-data privacy protections. The presenter also recommended a verification step to teach students not to trust AI outputs uncritically.
The guideline includes explicit prohibitions on voice synthesis and deepfakes and on using AI to assist bullying or…
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