Ms. Major said she appreciated how the system interacted with her students in engaging ways. “Khanmigo is able to connect with them and be on their level if they want it to,” she said. Khanmigo had asked her to explain how she came up with the answer to a data set problem. Then the bot incorrectly suggested that she might have made a “small mistake” in her calculations. “You are indeed correct.”That may prove to be one of the most important lessons for schoolchildren using promising new tutor bots: Don’t believe every A.I.-spawned text you read.

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