Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn

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Fei-Fei Li says the worst outcome of AI in schools is not cheating but students losing agency and motivation. Warns equally against banning the tools. Says AI works best once a student is already engaged and stuck. Spoke on the Huberman Lab podcast, released Monday.

Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at all. She made the case on the science podcast Huberman Lab, in an episode released on Monday.

“The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human-level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools,” said Li, the Stanford computer science professor widely known as the godmother of AI. “It should not be taken away by humans nor...

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