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15 June 2025 - AI News Quiz for Children Aged 14-17 Years Old

This fun quiz is all about the most interesting and important AI news from the past week, designed especially for 14 to 17-year-olds. Whether you’re curious, confident, or just winging it, this is your chance to learn what’s happening in the world of artificial intelligence.

If you don’t know an answer, no stress—just guess! After each question, you’ll see if you were right, and pick up some fascinating facts along the way.

From AI helping schools and scientists to big debates about cheating, tech safety, and the future of weather, there’s a lot going on. Let’s see how much you’ve picked up!

1 .
What futuristic plan did the UK Prime Minister announce this week involving AI and schools?
Every student gets a talking robot pencil case
An AI-powered National Tutoring Service
Replacing teachers with digital avatars
A TikTok-style homework grading app
The UK government launched a major TechFirst initiative, planning an AI powered national tutoring service to support students and ease teacher workload as part of a £187m investment in computing and education.
2 .
What major ethical worry did UK university professors raise about AI this week?
AI is stealing all the library books
Students are using AI to cheat on essays
Robots are giving lectures on their own
AI is too sleepy during early classes
According to The Guardian, nearly 7,000 confirmed cases of AI-assisted cheating (around 5.1 per 1,000 students) were recorded in the 2023–24 academic year, raising calls to rethink assessment methods.
3 .
How is the Met Office using AI to improve weather forecasting this week?
By using chatbot weathermen
By having AI guess tomorrow’s weather
By generating faster, high-resolution local forecasts
By scanning clouds for emoji patterns
The Met Office and Alan Turing Institute’s FastNet project uses AI to produce real time, high-resolution forecasts (to ~100m), accelerating warning times for storms and floods.
4 .
What practical tool did the UK government launch to guide how public services use AI?
The AI Playbook
The Robo-Helper Handbook
The Digital Wizard Rulebook
The Guide to Government Gadgets
GOV.UK released the “AI Playbook” – a practical guide for civil servants and public services to use AI safely, ethically, and transparently in their work.
5 .
What did a recent UK survey reveal about how people feel AI apps for kids should be released?
Only if they include free robot toys
If they can do homework in five seconds
As long as they’re on TikTok
Only after strict safety checks are done
A YouGov/NSPCC poll found that 78% of adults in the UK think AI tools for children should go through rigorous safety checks before being launched—even if it delays release.
6 .
What did the Science Secretary say AI could do for students with dyslexia?
Write poetry in their voice
Highlight every spelling mistake
Provide personalised learning support
Let them skip all reading tests
Peter Kyle highlighted that AI can adapt lessons for dyslexic learners, offering tailored feedback and support—like having a smart tutor that really understands how they learn.
7 .
What unusual move are UK universities taking to tackle AI cheating?
Reintroducing handwritten exams for some subjects
Hiring robots to mark student essays
Banning all laptops during lessons
Installing honesty detectors in classrooms
Following a rise in AI-assisted cheating, some UK universities are bringing back handwritten exams to ensure work is genuinely authored by students, not generated by AI.
8 .
How is AI helping environmental scientists in the UK this week?
By planting trees using drones
By cleaning up the beaches
By training foxes to carry sensors
By spotting pollution from satellite images
UK researchers are using AI with satellite imagery to detect pollution and environmental changes—improving real-time tracking of deforestation, spills, and carbon emissions.
9 .
How are AI tools being used in UK schools to reduce teacher workload?
By writing end-of-term reports in rhyme
By training robots to lead assemblies
By turning student handwriting into typed text
By making homework self-marking and self-destructing
Schools across England are piloting AI tools that scan handwritten student work and convert it to digital text, saving teachers hours of marking and helping analyse student progress.
10 .
What did teens get to do with AI at a Dutch science museum this week?
Talk to an AI that asks them questions
Build robots that make pancakes
Race chatbots in a spelling bee
Train AI to take selfies with tourists
At Amsterdam’s NEMO Science Museum, teens participated in the “Unravel the AI Machine” workshop—where the AI asked them questions and learned from their answers, teaching them how AI systems develop understanding.
Author:  Tara Kemp

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