Every child will get AI. Not every child will get a teacher
Source: Fortune ·
Today, you hear concerns that AI tools will be a privilege for wealthy kids only. But soon every child will have an AI tutor, just maybe not a human one.
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Today, you hear concerns that AI tools will be a privilege reserved for wealthy children. But I think that in the near future, we’ll be sounding the alarm for the opposite reason: every child will have an AI tutor, while only those whose parents can afford it will have a human teacher. Children from low-income families are already using AI more often than others. According to data from the Pew Research Center, one in five teenagers from families with an annual income of less than $30,000 does all or almost all of their homework with chatbots. Among teenagers from families with an income of $75,000 or more, that figure is 7%. With AI, a child can learn more – or they may lose the ability to think for themselves. It depends on the adult who is there to guide them – or isn’t. Why an AI tutor can’t replace a real teacher About 15 years ago, a young man who looked like a homeless person came to a branch of my IT school. We assumed he’d come in to warm up or ask for money. But he said,…