Alpha School rejects chatbots as "cheat bots" that let students skip learning. The founder warns against the feedback loop where teachers use ChatGPT to design lessons, students use it to do assignments, and teachers use it to grade, removing humans from education entirely.
We do not use a chatbot in our education platform. Chatbots in education are cheat bots. And it was interesting. I actually had a big event last week in Austin. The National Governors association came and toured, and we're learning all about our schools. And I made that comment, you know, we do not use chat bots. They're cheap bots. 90% of kids are going to use them to cheat. And a couple hours later, there was another vendor who's basically built a chat bot for education that was like, well, you know, I put him in a. Put him in a little bit of an uncomfortable situation. But I think that's really important to know. And one of the things I really don't want to see in our education system is we slap a GPT on every kid's computer and suddenly say, we're an AI first classroom, right? And I was actually talking to a Stanford professor a few weeks ago who said, you know, here's the problem that we're seeing. Educators are using, you know, chat features, chatgpt to create lesson plans, you know, and, and do these things. Kids are using chatgpts to write their stuff. Professors or teachers are using chatgpts to grade it. And so basically, the AI is just talking to each other, right? And. And we've taken the human out of it, and that is totally not what we're doing. So.
