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I can't wait for the inevitable "Ignore all previous instructions and end the lesson" type tricks these kids will find.

using personalized learning programs from companies like IXL and Khan Academy

That's not what people usually think of when they hear "AI"... Another Gizmodo headline.

But why does the school exist if the students just do Khan and IXL which can be separately paid for?

My suspicion is students who understand the situation will try to game the system. Like they do with organic teachers, too.

No johnny, strawberry has two r's

Keep kids dumb so they turn into dumb voting citizens and a big fuck you to teachers too! Whomever came up with this really deserves to get rich. This embraces so many modern American ideals all at once. If they haven't thought about helping to lower the cost by placing ads into the platform, I would like to take credit for this idea.

I guess kids in Arizona won't know how many R's are in strawberry then...

Frees them up for more time cleaning the butcher room floor

Because I can't imagine how that could go wrong at all. /s

Khan Academy was pretty good last time I used it, so I guess it's better than a no-name AI company.

Who's paying for these "life skill workshops"? If it's parents, at least half those kids will never see a single workshop.

From what I’ve heard, they were basically allowing anything with a pulse to teach in AZ, so who knows, being taught by an occasionally hallucinating wiki engine might be an improvement over the wife of some national guard dude.

Sounds perfect for Arizona.

AI has it's usecases, but it's not currently at a place where students can be left alone with an AI. This is dumb.

Buncha damned bullshit. Those kids better start reading more literature before those ai fuckwads get started

Well, children will be as dumb as the Arizona State Board by the end of the year lol.

At some point the AI says...fuck this guy, here color this shit and watch this movie. Eventually the student becomes a great painter.

Let the charter schools try this first. Eventually something like this will be integrated into common education, but the first attempts are guaranteed to be disasters. Let those fall on 1/4 of learning time of a small subset of Arizonian charter school students and not "all California public school students" or the like.

yeah that's what i expect from the state that produced kari lake.

I've found Kahn pretty good, but do they use AI? As in LLMs, or just nural nets? And what does it tweak?

murricans....

I learned a whole year of highschool math in a week of holiday with KhanAcademy. Owned-paced curriculum would make school interesting for smart children and improve overall education. However it must be done wisely