---
title: "China’s AI Teachers Could Revolutionize Education Worldwide"
description: "Chinese students are already interacting with AI teachers, and what they learn could affect the future of education on a global scale."
date: "2019-08-02"
modified: "2019-08-02"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-ai-teachers-education-worldwide"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Education"
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "ai teachers"
  - "china"
  - "education"
  - "the digest"
---

# China’s AI Teachers Could Revolutionize Education Worldwide

![Chinese students are already interacting with AI teachers, and what they learn could affect the future of education on a global scale.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/china-ai-teachers-education-worldwide.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Sanbot/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Learning Curve

China is betting big on the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize education.

A newly published *MIT Technology Review* [story](<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614057/china-squirrel-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the/>) details how the nation is embracing AI as both a replacement and a supplement to human teachers — and the outcome of the country's AI experiment could affect the future of education on a global scale.

## AI Teachers

From algorithms that curate tutoring lessons to surveillance systems that [monitor classroom progress](<https://futurism.com/smart-eye-china-facial-recognition>), tens of millions of Chinese students currently rely on some sort of AI to help them learn, *MIT Tech* reports, with three elements factoring into AI-powered education's ability to thrive in China.

For one, the nation has made it a point to incentivize such efforts through tax breaks. Then there's the fact that education is already something of a competitive sport in China, with students — and their parents — willing to try anything that might increase their test scores even slightly.

Finally, the people developing these AIs have a wealth of data available for training purposes as China places less of an emphasis on individual data privacy than many other developed countries.

## Graduation Day

While tens of millions of students is a lot, it's just a fraction of China's [200 million](<http://en.people.cn/92824/92845/92872/6442062.html>) elementary and high school students.

However, if these early experiments with AI education produce the kinds of longterm educational benefits China is hoping for, they could become a standard way of teaching in the nation — and eventually, even [beyond its borders](<https://futurism.com/ai-teachers-education-crisis>).

**READ MORE:** [China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.](<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614057/china-squirrel-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the/>) \[*MIT Technology Review*\]

**More on AI teachers:** *[The Solution to Our Education Crisis Might be AI](<https://futurism.com/ai-teachers-education-crisis>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)