A look at China's push to integrate AI tools into children's lives, even as educators and researchers are skeptical and warn that AI's benefits are overstated
Government support and tech companies' drive for profit fuel a rush to integrate AI tools, from robot tutors to chatbots, in education and caretaking. Bluesky: @restofworld.org . Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org Bluesky: @restofworld.org : Looking for an English tutor for her 12-year-old son in Jiangsu province, one mom picked a $1,170 robot dog. Powered by DeepSeek, it practices English, chats about the news, and, through it camera, helps her monitor the home when she is away. — Read @violazhou.bsky.social on AI for kids in China: Mastodon: Miguel Afonso Caetano / @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org : “The runaway success of Chinese artificial intelligence models such as DeepSeek and Qwen has spurred every industry, from health care to agriculture to education, to integrate AI. — Adoption of AI models in education and tutoring has been especially fast …