Parmy Olson, Columnist

Beware ChatGPT Trying to Teach Your Kids Math … or Anything

It has tantalizing potential as a tutor but is also a worrying new source of misinformation for kids.

February 1, 2023 at 5:00 AM UTC

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

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Wednesday marks a day of teacher strikes across much of the UK, putting parents in the familiar pandemic-inspired role of homeschoolers-in-chief to their kids. Except this time, there’s a magical automated assistant on hand to help.

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