The Harvard Gazette | What if AI could help students learn, not just do assignments for them?

Greg Kestin. Photo by Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer

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Professors find promise in ‘tutor bots’ that offer more flexible, individual, interactive attention in addition to live teaching: “...students in the AI-supported classroom reported significantly better engagement with the course and more motivation to learn…with an AI tutor, she added, students can go at their own pace and ask as many questions as they like, any time they like — without fear of being judged. And that’s the most important aspect of the tutor bot, the researchers said — to make sure it prompts students to think and ask questions, rather than do the thinking for them.”