Dear God no. Keep kids away from AI, and keep AI away from kids. Kids need more human contact, not less.

The more I think about it, the more I want to ban your entire business model

catalinvoss 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agree that kids benefit from more human interaction, not less. That's our goal.

The reality though is that the traditional school setting doesn't provide for that: a teacher in front of a 30 kid classroom can't cater to every child and it's not a particularly interactive experience. The current system just isn't working: 60% of US fourth-graders are behind in reading, 40% lack basic literacy. Those kids are going to move on to the next phase of school without the skills to thrive.

There are 270 mil kids out of school globally. So what are you going to do? Give every child a 1-1 human tutor? For sure, if you can, that’s amazing. But you can't pull that off. You don't have enough teachers.

Technology gives us the opportunity to catch kids up. By doing that, you can decouple teaching hard skills and free up teachers to focus on the things that are truly human and unlock a lot more people who may not have the skills to teach the full curriculum themselves to act as learning facilitators. That leads to more human interaction.

	▲	catalinvoss 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Business model is interesting BTW. We’re a public benefit company and are planning to make our products completely free in emerging markets and have a free tier in the US. Impact and business should be aligned here, but pulling in opposite corners.

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teichman 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Personally I would like to see kids learn way way more in much less time, and it’s clear AI is going to make that possible. What you are saying sounds a lot like “I want kids to learn less and be dumber”

	▲	mekael an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Im unsure as to how "it's clear that AI is going to make that possible". Things that help kids learn - parents who love and care for them - stable housing - stable access to food - stable access to high quality eduction provided by a human being - stable access to healthcare None of those are provided by AI, and never can be. The only thing that will is a thorough reimagining of the society we live in. Note: This is all predicated on living in America, and I pre-apologize to everyone who doesn't.