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At Lakeside Primary School in Singapore, a trolley full of laptops is wheeled to the door of a fifth grade classroom where 30 or so students rush out to a hallway to retrieve them to learn mathematics using artificial intelligence.

At Lakeside Primary School in Singapore, a trolley full of laptops is wheeled to the door of a fifth grade classroom where 30 or so students rush out to a hallway to retrieve them to learn mathematics using artificial intelligence. Looi Chee Kit, research chair professor in the Education University of Hong Kong, said many AI technologies are "black boxes," referring to a fact that most people do not understand how they work. As uncertainty has increased concerns about AI being biased, governments should develop guidelines and regulatory frameworks and consider ethical implications and other issues, taking cybersecurity measures to safeguard sensitive educational data, said Looi, also a professor emeritus at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

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