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Many schools are currently drafting an AI policy. Some are producing lengthy procedural documents. Others are waiting. A few are experimenting informally without any written position at all. In my view, the strongest AI policies are not long. They are clear. At St Augustine’s, our Artificial Intelligence Policy is deliberately principles-based and fits one side of A4. That is not accidental. It reflects a belief that policy should be accessible, readable, and rooted in first

This week I had a constructive conversation with a senior national education body about artificial intelligence in schools. I will keep the individual and organisation confidential. What matters more than the names is the signal. The signal is this: the profession is not asking whether AI will arrive. It is asking how it should be handled. Across the system, three themes are emerging. 1. Teachers Do Not Want Hype. They Want Clarity. There is very little appetite for grand cla

Recently, I had the privilege of a searching and generous conversation with colleagues from a leading UK university about the future of AI in teacher development. They were enthusiastic about the potential of transcript-based lesson analysis to deepen professional reflection. They were also clear-eyed about the risks. Their central question was subtle but profound: If AI works by identifying patterns, does it quietly push us towards the middle of the bell curve? And if so, wh

Recently on The AI Daily Brief, Nathaniel Whittemore referenced a study that caught my attention. Researchers followed roughly two hundred employees in a US technology company after they were given access to enterprise AI tools. The expectation, at least in theory, was that productivity gains might reduce workload. Instead, the opposite happened. Link to the Harvard Business Review article AI Doesn’t Reduce Work. It Intensifies It. https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-wor

Later this month I will be speaking at the annual online gathering of the SOPHIA Network, the European Foundation for the Advancement of Philosophy with Children. SOPHIA Network – European Foundation for the Advancement of Philosophy with Children : https://www.sophianetwork.eu The session sits alongside wider international conversations about AI and enquiry, and forms part of a growing dialogue across Europe about the place of technology in Philosophy for Communities. The ti