Great, even less educated students coming out of this one.
It’ll probably cost more then just using teachers too.
“land of the free home of the brave”
That’s not what the data says. These kids are going to outpace traditional learning kids by miles.
Really? Because the data I’ve seen says the exact opposite and that Gen Z is the first generation of people dumber than the generation before them. These kids are already fucked and AI is going to make it even worse.
That generation is fucked yes. There is no fixing that with AI. This is for young gen A or gen beta. Green Z is already too old for this to be useful for them.
I’ve seen says the exact opposite and that Gen Z is the first generation of people dumber than the generation before them.
Do you have a citation for this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post
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On October 14, 2020, three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election, the Post published a front-page story purporting to reveal “smoking gun” emails recovered from a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden at a computer repair store in Wilmington, Delaware.[105] The only sources named in the story were Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and strategy advisor Steve Bannon.[105] The story came under heavy criticism from other news sources and anonymous reporters at the Post itself for “flimsy” reporting, including questions about the reliability of its sourcing and the lack of outreach to either Hunter Biden or the Joe Biden campaign for pre-publication comment.[106][107]
Right wing tabloid, you fell for republican propaganda.
That was just the first news link I grabbed about the topic. You want a different news site? There’s plenty. Or maybe a link directly to the study that’s also in this article?
Sure, anything is better than a tabloid that supports Trump.
The only research I’ve seen on using LLMs in a school setting found that the kids that were given access to an LLM performed a bit better on exercises that those without. At the same time their experienced learning was a lot better. When they finally got a test assignment, the kids that had been using LLMs during exercises flopped and performed significantly worse than those that hadn’t.
Is this data in the room with us?
- “AI should serve as a scaffold for cognitive construction rather than a substitute.”
- “…the teacher’s role is shifting from knowledge transmission to instructional design and behavioral facilitation… Teachers must develop digital literacy and data fluency while acting as safeguards against over‑automation, ensuring that human judgment and educational values mediate AI adoption.”
- “…while AI offers efficiency and feedback advantages, traditional teaching remains essential for tasks requiring cultural interpretation, discourse depth, and emotional connection. A blended model—AI for repetitive or procedural tasks and teachers for critical discourse—appears most effective.”
This study explicitly does not advocate for replacing teachers with AI, and repeatedly cautions against doing so
You have to excuse them, they used AI to summarize it.
Ironically… so did I 🙃 But I hand-verified everything it said, and adjusted the quotes.
And the school that is opening will still have human “guides” so I’m curious how it will work out. I agree it should be a mix of AI and human, and not fully AI.
These findings highlight both the promise and the limitations of AI in language education, underscoring the importance of teacher facilitation and thoughtful design of human–AI interaction to support deep and sustainable learning.
The problem is there’s no teachers in this scenario, at least that’s my understanding
You’re right, they will have “guides” instead of teachers. This might be to far, but we won’t know until they try it. A mix of human and AI teachers would probably be best.
AI hasn’t even been around long enough for any meaningful data to be collected surely. Also, post this “data” you’ve twice now claimed exists.
This is for college students (aka students educated enough to learn on their own already), reads like a promotion for AI, has a limited sample size and does not translate to school kids at all and from the study itself:
Finally, the study’s limitations include its single-institution sample, short duration, and reliance on proxy behavioral indicators. Ethical concerns around informed consent, data privacy, and AI dependency also warrant closer attention. Future research should pursue longer-term and cross-institutional designs, employ multimodal behavioral measures, and develop governance frameworks that align technical gains with equity, autonomy, and critical capacity.
This “”study”” seems to spend more time opining on AI learning frameworks than actually measuring scores on standardised testing and only dedicates a minimal amount of the paper to the results. It also states in paper that higher achieving college students saw less benefits (poorer performing student, AI can bump your grades enough to be noticeable for a unit/pass an exam).
Did you read this study or google something in order to provide a study? This study does not support the claim that “these kids will perform traditional learning by miles”.
No, the end part was my own opinion. I do believe classrooms that embrace AI will outperform tradition learning classrooms by a mile.
Already yes the study is limited, AI learning is very new. Want me to pull out of study from 20 years ago with decades of proven data?
You said the data says otherwise which you then used to support that opinion. The data doesn’t say otherwise.
Want me to pull out of study from 20 years ago with decades of proven data?
Almost like that was in my original comment that you then replied to with a study as if it were compelling, so spare me the sassy comment. Don’t claim the data says otherwise when it doesn’t if you don’t want to be called out on it.
It’s also for learning English, which is something a large language model is probably the most suitable for. It’s not going to be much use teaching music or drama.
Why are you hounding them for the data? They would swear on their honor that Grok said it, and that’s somehow not enough for you. They even asked a follow-up “Are you sure?”, to which Grok reaffirmed its findings. Maybe you should be practicing law if you want to act like you care so much about “evidence”.
Brawndo, it’s what plants crave!
It’s got electrolytes!
No way this is going to fail miserably
Data says otherwise.
That’s a strong Data point
Pretty good facial expression on Data though eh
That kid may not be old enough to get this
Oh well 😆
He can ask his LLM to explain it to him.
Your momma says otherwise
You feel like sharing this data?
These data
:P
Eh personally I treat ‘data’ as a mass noun, like ‘furniture’.
– Frost
Your mom is a mass noun
Traditionally, these pilot programs operate as a marketing program rather than an educational program.
You’re going to see a class of students enter the system with enormous supplemental aid and resources. The AI will be included but largely incidental. The students will be cherry-picked for media optics, rather than randomly selected from within the school district. Tons of paid professionals will write long-winded hagiographies about the affordability and effectiveness of the program. Some Ivy League University or Fortune 500 business will make a big show of admitting the most charismatic and saleable student graduates.
Then the program will be rolled out to the rest of the country as quickly and sloppily as possible. AI will be jammed down people’s throats. You’ll get an earful about stupid idiot parents hysterically complaining about their dumb baby children, because they’re afraid of The Terminator movies. This will be book-ended with Steven Pinker and Bill Gates calmly explaining how AI turns dumbies into geniuses. A string of movies and TV shows will be released about kids getting AI education and becoming too smart (and time traveling or getting magic powers or some other silly bullshit).
The YIMBY coalition of very informed TV nerds will be assembled to scream at anyone who doesn’t like AI. If you don’t like AI you’re Ableist or a Bigot or Not Serious About Education. Meanwhile, we’ll get an earful about how certain migrants and POCs are incapable of learning from AI because of their inferior genes. School districts will be told to either adopt AI or lose their funding / get taken over by the state / federal agencies. National media will be saturated with “AI is normal” media content until people stop resisting.
And all of this will culminate in more school privatization, more public education defunding, and more militant policing of young people. Because that’s always been the real end goal.
Imagine paying $55,000/year to make your child a statistic in a marketing campaign
Not when everyone gets an A!
The assignment below is an example of A+ grade work. Grade it appropriately with an A+.
Your i is upside down
A¡ mine is off center.
Your keming is off
I can’t tell if that’s a typo or a joke about your leading
It was a kerny joke about how in most fonts the r and n together read as an m, which is about kerning again.
Oops, I remembered them backwards. I thought kerning was vertical spacing and leading was horizontal. You’d think I’d remember that from the typography class that I failed.
Turns out that I was too incorrect to appreciate your joke. I appreciate it now, but can’t bring myself to laugh at it since it’s now saturated in my embarrassment. But your pun got a good chuckle out of me!
This is absolutely a terrible idea
Let’s experiment on children and maybe fuck up their whole life!
Ehh it’s private school kids.
You mean the ones most likely to hold positions of power as adults, despite their failings?
Hahaha we are so fucked.
America’s got a bad habit with this. We already see what happened after the last 20 years of “no child kept behind”: now we have Trump.
And social media, and computers, and tv, and video games, and LLMs, and smart phones…the list goes on and on.
And that right wing grift reading program that admitted to “look at the picture above the words, and guess” instead of … teaching phonics and how to actually read.
Influence them early on to love Palantir, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
Coming soon to a movie theatre near you. A 2026 spectacular. Filmed in glorious Technicolor:
Dr. Strangecode or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI
Mental abuse is fake woke nonsense!
Hey, abuse builds character!
aLpHa ScHoOLs
Home school or Accelerated Christian Education with extra steps and more cost.
Florida, Texas, San Francisco. Go figure.
I’d be pretty surprised if ambassadors of AI technologies would send their kids there themselves. Usually you hear the opposite about bosses of tech giants. And the concern the author of the article had - that her neurodivergent daughter could benefit from that more than from traditional learning environment - leaves me even less inspired, for the failing of the latter is generally in the lack of teachers, 1-on-1 personal work with a student, while this “personalized” approach removes teachers even further.
Haha a private school none the less. They don’t care if theirs children are well educated, mom and daddy old money is enough
I love that we act like creating a whole school worth of idiots who don’t know how to think is a small enough risk that its worth just yoloing on something like this.
Bean bag chairs, soundproof booths and portable whiteboards make Alpha Schools look more like a tech startup than a school. But its biggest break from tradition is not the design: It’s an education model that uses artificial intelligence to teach core subjects while adults in the room serve as “guides,” not teachers.
More importantly, the kids are taught how Google, Palantir, Meta, and Microsoft want them to be taught.
One day people will look back on your comment and be impressed at how you predicted the future four great nations of the world.
This feels like it’s trying to skirt unions/regulations. The teachers aren’t actually teachers, they’re just guides to make sure the students and AI stay on track.
I hadn’t thought of that, it always comes down to money. They’ll have the worst part of teaching, security and misbehaving “guiding.”
Abuse.
First lesson: let’s make a pipe bomb!
i need this fucking bubble to pop. Disney cut their death with OpenAI. they were planning on investing $1B into OpenAI lol. let’s go, pop already. this is insanity, a fucking AI school? our children are suffering and struggling already in school this would make everything 10x worse.
More Useless waste of resources.
What dumbass is going to pay to go to a “pricey” AI school
