Google paper: students practicing with pushback AI teammates write better business plans
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-08
A Google paper (arXiv:2611.02016), 'Improving Entrepreneurial Skills by Practicing with AI', finds students who practiced with AI teammates that push back wrote better business plans than those using standard AI tools. Critical thinking and collaboration are key entrepreneurial skills but hard to teach at scale; the team extended Vantage, a Google Research platform where students work through business tasks in chat with AI teammates.
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