Coracle has received Innovate UK backing to partner with the University of Hertfordshire on an “AI cellmate” designed to improve learning in prisons.
The system aims to understand each prisoner’s learning needs, habits and preferred style, then adapt its guidance in real time, even in offline settings, by spotting progress and where someone is struggling.
Coracle already provides secure, offline Chromebooks with courses to prisoners (including content from The Open University and Prisoners’ Education Trust), and its CEO James Tweed argues that personalised AI support could help overcome common barriers like past negative school experiences and higher rates of neurodiversity, with potential benefits for rehabilitation and reducing reoffending, and applications beyond prisons too.
Prisoners Could Get ‘AI Cellmate’ To Help Them Learn
Prisoners Will Get An ‘AI Cellmate’ To Help Them Learn
New ‘AI cellmate’ will help prisoners engage
