Mollick team releases 'Primer' AI for education, giving educators control
emollick · x · 2026-11-13
Ethan Mollick, Lilac Mollick and collaborators released an AI education project named after the Primer from The Diamond Age, backed by the Bezos Family Foundation, Walton Family Foundation and others. Their thesis: AI can have a large positive impact on education when used properly, but mainstream AIs are not built for learning out-of-the-box — so the tool is designed to give educators, not the model, control over how AI is used. Paper and GitHub code are available.
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