Why the ‘one chatbot per child’ model in classrooms may be flawed

Today, it seems we may be on the cusp of ‘one chatbot per child.’ In the Star Trek universe, the audience occasionally gets a glimpse inside schools on the planet Vulcan. Young children stand alone in pods surrounded by 360-degree digital screens. Adults wander among the pods but do not talk to the students. Instead, each child interacts only with a sophisticated artificial intelligence, which peppers them with questions about everything from mathematics to philosophy.