Openai’s education director says learning requires struggles – more than just

As Chatgpt is now widely used by students around the world, concerns about the erosion of cheating and critical thinking skills are growing. Openai is well aware of these issues and is working to solve them. Kevin Mills, Director of Education and Government at the AI Good Summit in Geneva today, outlining the company’s efforts to explore how AI tools can be used to support rather than replace meaningful learning.
“We know that real learning requires friction. It requires struggle,” Mills said. “You have to interact with the material, and if students offload all of this work into tools like Chatgpt, they won’t learn these skills and they won’t gain critical thinking. That is, when Chatgpt is properly used as a learning assistant and tutor, the results are powerful.”
Given Mills’ claims, the need to fine-tune guardrails is becoming increasingly urgent given that 40% of CHATGPT users are under 24 years of age (and learning is the first use case for the platform). Pew Research reports that nearly one-third of teenagers who use Chatgpt now compared to 2023 said it is acceptable to use the tool to solve math problems.
In response, Mills said Openai is actively studying the appearance of appropriate AI in education and plans to share the guidance widely and quickly with educators around the world.
As part of this initiative, OpenAI yesterday announced a new partnership with the American Federation of Teachers to launch the National Academy of AI Teaching, which aims to provide practical AI fluency to more than 400,000 educators between 2030 and 2030.