Nairobi, Sept. 9 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving into children's schoolwork faster than many education systems can adapt, shifting the challenge from access to information toward judging whether machine-generated answers can be trusted.

Students now use generative AI to explain difficult concepts, develop essay ideas, check drafts, solve problems and prepare presentations, making chatbots another potential layer of everyday learning.

The arising challenge, according to pundits, is that the same systems can produce convincing but false information, fabricate sources and generate manipulated images, leaving children to distinguish useful assistance from answers that only sound correct.

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, in a Septemb...