Part III: Building What Works
Chapter 17
Artificial Intelligence in Education
Artificial intelligence has been "about to transform education" since the 1960s. Intelligent tutoring systems produced real but narrow gains over fifty years. Then, from November 2022, large language models put a capable, conversational, free tutor, or cheating machine, in every student's pocket. This chapter separates the jobs AI does in education, reviews what the evidence shows, and sets out what makes an AI education business defensible.
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In this chapter
- 17.1Four jobs, four standards
- 17.2Fifty years of intelligent tutoring
- 17.3The generative wave
- 17.4Anatomy of a credible AI tutor
- 17.5Grading, feedback and integrity
- 17.6What the evidence shows by 2026
- 17.7Data, policy and the warning from Korea
- 17.8What makes an AI education business defensible