One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here
We&#x27;ve seen this before: use hype and techno-optimism to sell a bill of goods.<p>If history is any guide, the concept of an &quot;AI tutor&quot; won&#x27;t be used to &quot;[give] every child their own personal Aristotle,&quot; it will be used to cut costs by replacing human teachers for low-status students with poor substitutes.<p>Seriously, think about how much money can be saved from firing most teachers and locking poor kids in a cubicle farm to stare at an insane &quot;AI tutor&#x27;s&quot; screen all day.<p>And what&#x27;s the strongest message sent by replacing human interactions with a machines?: &quot;We don&#x27;t care enough about you to actually bother to interact with you.&quot; Think of how you feel when you have a problem, you make a call to fix it, and all you get are phone menus.<p>And look at all the examples in the article: use GPT to generate crappy stories and educational games for kids to play.  How can anyone think that&#x27;s better than using a book?  At least the book&#x27;s stories and games can be tested and evaluated before use.<p>The actual problem here is the sociopolitical one of unwillingness to allocate enough resources to education to make it truly effective and satisfying, and that&#x27;s one that technology can&#x27;t solve.