This week, the Gates Foundation announced a $1 billion commitment to build and deliver equitable AI tools to schools, frontline health care workers, farmers, and more. Of that commitment, 40% will go toward education, including AI tutoring to individualize learning in classrooms both in the U.S. and abroad. That’s a whopping $400 million infusion into schools for a tool that’s only been around (at least commercially) for a handful of years. The AI push is part of a broader U.S. education strategy the foundation laid out in July, which aims to help up to 10 million more Americans earn “credentials of value” by 2045, the year the foundation plans to close. And it comes at a time when the value of classroom technology is being questioned. Test scores have dropped among some students over the same time period since computer assessments were widely implemented. Meanwhile, research shows that ever since the U.S. spent $30 billion to swap textbooks for laptops, Gen Z has shown to be less cognitively capable than previous generations, according to written testimony by neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath presented to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce earlier this year. Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/09/19/the-gates-foundation-ai-schools-teachers-warn-gap-reading-math/ submitted by /u/fortune
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