Today, you hear concerns that AI tools will be a privilege reserved for wealthy children. But I think that in the near future, we’ll be sounding the alarm for the opposite reason: every child will have an AI tutor, while only those whose parents can afford it will have a human teacher.
Children from low-income families are already using AI more often than others. According to data from the Pew Research Center, one in five teenagers from families with an annual income of less than $30,000 does all or almost all of their homework with chatbots. Among teenagers from families with an income of $75,000 or more, that figure is 7%.
