The software is intelligent, why do I need to learn this? The question every FE classroom now faces | FE News

A challenge facing further education (FE) classrooms is a simple question learners ask: if software is “intelligent,” why must they learn? The article argues that marketing language and headlines have led learners to treat AI-like systems as authoritative. In practice, the technology mainly predicts likely answers from past data, unlike human judgement needed for genuinely novel situations where regulations, context, and out-of-template cases matter. Because the tools look equally fluent either way, the burden shifts to learners to apply their knowledge and verify outputs. The piece urges providers this term to teach how these systems work and build mandatory checking into every course.