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Becky Vevea here. Recently, my 7-year-old son used the phrase: “That’s so AI.” I asked him what that meant. His response? “It means it’s fake.” This exchange popped into my head as I was reading the first few lines of my colleague Matt Barnum’s latest column about a study examining Khanmigo, an AI chatbot associated with the popular Khan Academy program. It found that middle school students rarely used an AI-powered tutor when given the option to do so. Read more about the findings here.
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