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Agentic AI is reshaping how educators in New Zealand teach, plan, and support students but not without raising important questions around security and control. As schools adopt AI tools to mark student work or generate assessments, concerns are growing around data privacy, offshore processing, and the trustworthiness of generative tools.
Recent headlines have highlighted how AI is being used in classrooms to mark student writing or create lesson plans. While this offers huge time-saving potential, it also brings risks when AI tools are hosted offshore or operate like black boxes making decisions with no transparency into how, or why, they were made.
That’s where agentic AI, running on sovereign New Zealand infrastructure, can provide a safer and more accountable solution. Instead of generic chatbot-style tools, agentic AI involves purpose-built agents that take action in specific, controlled ways—like generating Individual Education Plans (IEPs), recommending teaching strategies, or translating material into different languages.
AI agents built on TEAM Cloud can run entirely within New Zealand, ensuring student data never leaves the country. Each action taken by an agent (like generating a plan or selecting a resource) is explainable, auditable, and aligned to curriculum outcomes.
This shift isn't just about reducing teacher admin. It’s about scaling personalised learning, supporting underserved students, and giving educators trustworthy tools that save time without sacrificing quality or safety. It's important that we protect the valuable work our country's students are putting forward from offshore eyes.
Contact us to explore more about how this fits into the future of safe, usable AI here.