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Newark Public Schools is trialling Khan Academy's AI assistance tool Khanmigo in three schools, in an experiment aimed at discovering how to maximise its potential and avoid AI deception. Developed by education non-profit firm Khan Academy, Khanmigo uses language models created by OpenAI.
Tech industry hype and doomsday prophesies around AI-enhanced chatbots like ChatGPT sent many schools scrambling this year to block or limit the use of the tools in classrooms. Newark Public Schools is taking a different approach.
US News: On a recent morning, Cheryl Drakeford, a third grade teacher at First Avenue Elementary School in Newark, projected a challenging math question on her.
NEWARK, N.J. — On a recent morning, Cheryl Drakeford, a third grade teacher at First Avenue Elementary School in Newark, projected a challenging math question on her classroom’s whiteboard: “What fraction of the letters in the word MATHEMATICIAN are consonants?” Drakeford knew that “consonant” might be an unfamiliar word to some students. So she suggested they ask Khanmigo, a new tutoring bot that uses artificial intelligence, for help. She paused for a minute while about 15 schoolchildren dutif