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This article discusses the evolving landscape for students in the age of Artificial Intelligence, proposing a three-pronged approach: to prosper, prepare, and protect themselves within this new paradigm.
AI 生成摘要
本文探討了在人工智能時代下，學生不斷變化的學習與發展前景，並提出了一個三面向的策略：在新的範式中蓬勃發展、做好準備並保護自己。
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January 14, 2026
Education Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Global Economy and Development
Center for Universal Education
Brookings Global Task Force on AI in Education
Since the debut of ChatGPT and with the public’s growing familiarity with generative artificial intelligence (AI), the education community has been debating its promises and perils. Rather than wait for a decade to conduct a postmortem on the failures and opportunities of AI, the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education embarked on a yearlong global study—a premortem—to understand the potential negative risks that generative AI poses to students, and what we can do now to prevent these risks, while maximizing the potential benefits of AI.
At this point in its trajectory, the risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits.
After interviews, focus groups, and consultations with over 500 students, teachers, parents, education leaders, and technologists across 50 countries, a close review of over 400 studies, and a Delphi panel, we find that at this point in its trajectory, the risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits. This is largely because the risks of AI differ in nature from its benefits—that is, these risks undermine children’s foundational development—and may prevent the benefits from being realized.
We find that AI has the potential to benefit or hinder students, depending on how it is used. We all have the agency, the capacity, and the imperative to help AI enrich, not diminish, students’ learning and development.
To this end, we offer three pillars for action: Prosper, Prepare, and Protect. Under each pillar, we present actionable recommendations for governments, technology companies, education system leaders, families, and all those who touch this issue. We urge all relevant actors to identify at least one recommendation to advance over the next three years.
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Shift educational experiences in school.
Co-create educational AI tools with educators, students, parents, and communities.
Use AI tools that teach, not tell.
Conduct research on children’s learning and development in an AI world.
Promote holistic AI literacy for students, teachers, parents, and education leaders.
Prepare teachers to teach with and through AI.
Provide a clear vision for ethical AI use that centers human agency.
Employ innovative financing strategies to close the AI divide.
Break the engagement addiction and design platforms that are centered around positive mental health for children and youth.
Establish comprehensive regulatory frameworks for educational AI.
Procure technology that protects students’ privacy, safety, and security.
Support families to manage children’s AI use at home.
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