Brian Jacob, the co-director of University of Michigan's Youth Policy Lab, believes the two initiatives can co-exist, as they address two separate ideas. One expresses enthusiasm for applying AI for educational purposes, while the other centers fear of screen time spent on non-educational uses, like watching social media videos.
"There is a bit of an odd nature of these things happening at the same time," he says. "I think you could want students to be off devices more, but when they're on them, [to be] utilizing AI or having AI be part of intelligent tutoring systems that would better assist students. I think in practice you could try and incorporate AI more into the education space while still limiting, having less, online time."
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