The UK government is investing £4 million in developing AI tools to assist teachers with marking homework, aiming to reduce their workload and allow more time for classroom interactions. The initiative will use educational data to train AI specifically for school environments, improving accuracy to 92%. While nearly half of teachers already use AI, the new tools will be tailored to the English curriculum. Although parents and teachers are initially skeptical, there is openness to AI's potential benefits, despite concerns about bias and its effectiveness in evaluating nuanced subjects.