Understand it / 20 seconds
It can—especially when it helps a human tutor ask better questions or gives a useful hint. But getting more answers right while AI is present is not automatically the same as learning more for tomorrow.
Here's what matters
Learning / Change the kind of help
01Student still performs the step
02AI narrows the next move
03Better chance of durable practice
Each layer shows evidence type, geography, assumptions, caveats, review date, and original sources.
Observational finding
Students whose human tutors had AI assistance were about four percentage points more likely to master a topic; gains reached about nine percentage points with lower-rated tutors.
Students whose human tutors had AI assistance were about four percentage points more likely to master a topic; gains reached about nine percentage points with lower-rated tutors.
Randomized trial
Students can perform better while AI is available yet learn less for later unaided work when assistance gives away answers; guardrails and tutor-like design can change the outcome.
Students can perform better while AI is available yet learn less for later unaided work when assistance gives away answers; guardrails and tutor-like design can change the outcome.