‘What if I told you this school had no teachers?’: Is AI schooling the future of education — or a risky bet?

MIT associate professor Justin Reich, who also directs the Institute’s Teaching Systems Lab, spoke with CNN about Alpha, a chain of private K-12 schools that educates students using AI. Reich questions whether the schools’ success metrics are appropriate. “It’s sort of strange to be comparing [Alpha’s] students to students from a wide variety of very challenging circumstances, rather than comparing their students to other students in elite private schools,” he says.