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Education2026-04-07

The quest to build a better AI tutor

It’s easy to get swept up in the hype about artificial intelligence tutors. But the evidence so far suggests caution.  Some studies have found that chatbot tutors can backfire because students lean on them too heavily, get spoonfed solutions and fail to absorb the material. Even when AI tutors

By The Hechinger Report

The quest to build a better AI tutor

It’s easy to get swept up in the hype about artificial intelligence tutors

But the evidence so far suggests caution.  Some studies have found that chatbot tutors can backfire because students lean on them too heavily, get spoonfed solutions and fail to absorb the material

Even when AI tutors