Children need interaction, not AI | Letters
TL;DR
Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Jane Roland Martin respond to an article by Daniel Susskind about how parents can embrace the technology The most telling sentence in Daniel Susskind’s article (I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI, 6 September) is “human tutors are too expensive to provide to everyone”. Too expensive in relation to what?
Nauti's Take
This is a political argument, not evidence about AI’s concrete effects on learning. Small teams testing AI in education should first identify which tasks require human interaction, measure learning outcomes, and verify whether the system creates more time for mentoring or quietly replaces meaningful conversation.
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