9ine presents ‘Turing Trials’
Looking for a fun, free and engaging way to have discussions about the opportunities and risks of AI in education? Well look no further, as 9ine are...
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Mark Orchison
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Oct 2, 2025 3:39:02 PM
Introducing ‘Turing Trials Walk-throughs’, our weekly guide between now and the end of 2025, which takes a look at each of the Scenarios in Turing Trials, our workshop-style card game which can be used by staff and students to understand the risks, issues and safeguards required when using AI in Education.
Back in March 2025, 9ine launched Turing Trials, our fun and interactive workshop-style card game, which staff and students can use to have conversations about AI’s impact in education, including on data privacy and child safeguarding. Since then, we have:
If you haven’t downloaded it already, Turing Trials is available for download for free from our website. Here you will be able to download the full card deck, as well as our card game facilitator guide which includes an overview, instructions for the game and helpful tips for those running the game in a workshop or in the classroom. This includes what some of the right answers might be, or further discussion you might want to prompt. You are also able to access a short instructional video that you can play at the start of a class or workshop for a quick overview.
To help you to continue to get the most out of Turing Trials and to support you in making Turing Trials a success at your school, we are launching our ‘Turing Trials Walk-throughs’. Each week between now and the end of the year in a series of blogs on our website, we will take you through each of the ten scenarios we currently have to discuss some of the risks, issues and safeguards you will need to consider for each. We’ll be including real-world examples of where these issues around the use of AI in Education have arisen in schools, from safeguarding issues like deep-fakes, to bias and discrimination which is inherent in AI and is already impacting staff and students negatively. We encourage you to download the cards and read through the instructions and facilitator guide if you want more detail about exactly how to play the game, as these will give you more context for the walk-throughs.
Turing Trials is deliberately designed to have no single ‘right’ answer, it’s about groups of staff and students understanding more about what the issues and risks are of using AI and what safeguards could be put in place to mitigate them. From what we have seen, we can present the same scenario to different groups and the issues and safeguards that they highlight as the most important vary - which is why the game can be played again and again and the conversations and learning that comes from playing it is the most important point. These walkthroughs are meant to be a starting point, but we have already heard (and hope to hear more) schools embracing these scenarios and making them applicable to their schools in ways we have never imagined.
We will be looking at issues ranging from processes not being followed, to bias and discrimination and a lack of training/awareness within the school community. We will also cover the risks that these scenarios present to the school community and the safeguards that schools need to put in place to mitigate them, from putting policies and processes in place, to ensuring that they are transparent about AI use and have ‘humans in the loop’ when it comes to using AI.
Turing Trials is constantly evolving and we are currently working on the next iteration of the game, where we will be adding more Scenarios and different ways to play the game to highlight the evolving risks and issues associated with using AI in Education and what schools need to do to ensure that they remain safe, secure and compliant. If you have any feedback on Turing Trials, including how well it has worked for your school or suggestions for improvements (you might want us to add a specific Scenario, Issue or Safeguard that your school has faced), you can contact us.
We work with various schools who are at various different levels of maturity when it comes to their use of AI. Even within the same school, different departments and different staff members can have different levels of maturity, so which issues, risks and safeguards will your school highlight as important?
Whilst Turing Trials is a great way to start your AI literacy journey, or to keep the risks and issues associated with the use of AI front of mind, you might find that once you have identified these, your school needs extra support in mitigating them, which is where 9ine is here to help. We offer a number of solutions to help to mitigate the risks of using AI in education, including:
If you have any queries, you can contact us for more information and if you would like to sign up to notifications as each of these Walkthroughs goes live, as well as other content and articles that we release, you can sign up here.
9ine equips schools to stay safe, secure and compliant. We give schools access to all the expertise they need to meet their technology, cyber, data privacy, governance, risk & compliance needs - in one simple to use platform. For additional information, please visit www.9ine.com or follow us on LinkedIn @9ine.
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