A Conversation on AI Tutoring: Is Generative AI the Ultimate Learning Tool Or a Mental Drain?
On Monday, November 17, 2025, join us for a conversation on AI tutoring: Is generative AI the ultimate learning tool or a mental drain? Hear from the researchers whose experiments with AI tutors are reshaping what we know about learning in the age of ChatGPT.
Featuring:
Kelly Miller + Greg Kestin (Harvard)
Hamsa Bastani + Alp Sungu (UPenn)
Moderated by Adam Brown (SOLER)
Monday, November 17th
3:00 – 4:15 pm
Online (webinar) & in person (203 Butler)
Is generative AI the ultimate learning tool or a mental drain? Hear from the researchers whose experiments with AI tutors are reshaping what we know about learning in the age of ChatGPT.
Join Hamsa Bastani and Alp Sungu (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) and Greg Kestin and Kelly Miller (Harvard University) for a thought-provoking conversation moderated by the Center for Teaching and Learning and co-sponsored by the Data Science Institute and the Office of the Provost. The event will bring together these leading researchers, whose groundbreaking studies on generative AI tutors reached strikingly different conclusions—one showing AI’s potential to dramatically enhance learning, the other revealing how AI use can be harmful in the absence of safeguards. Together, we’ll explore what these findings mean for the future of education. Will AI help students learn—or quietly undermine their ability to think? Join us for a lively debate as we engage with this question and more.
This event will take place on Zoom. For folks who would like to gather in community to watch together and stay for a brief discussion after the webinar, please join us in Butler 203.