The 'Godmother of AI' says the biggest risk of AI in schools is taking away kids’ motivation to learn

Fei-Fei Li. Big Event Media/Getty Images for HumanX Conference Fei-Fei Li, founder of World Labs, says AI could weaken students' motivation and agency to learn. "It should not be taken away by humans nor should it be taken away by machines," she said. Instead, Li said learners should use AI as a learning companion that helps them get unstuck. As schools wrestle with how to handle AI in the classroom, Fei-Fei Li says the biggest danger is not that students will use AI to cheat — it's that it will erode their ability to learn. "The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human-level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools," Li, who is widely known as the " Godmother of AI ," said on an episode of the science podcast "Huberman Lab" released on Monday.