Here's the lede: "A new Dartmouth study finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may put more trust in AI platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, rather than from massive data sets of general information." I think we already knew the first bit, and it's unfathomable that nobody has reported the second bit. But maybe I'm wrong; the paper appears in Nature, which gives it some chachet. The paper reports on adoption rates as determined by perceived benefits, part of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This article was written by a Dartmouth publicist promoting the team's research.
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