Fortune Op-Ed: AI Tutors Will Reach Every Child, but Only the Wealthy Keep Human Teachers

Fortune publishes a commentary by education researcher Dmytro Korchevskyi arguing AI tutoring is on a path to displace human teachers for low-income students while wealthier families keep traditional instruction. The piece cites Pew data showing teenagers from families earning under $30K use AI for homework at 3x the rate of wealthier peers, a Wharton study where students scored 17% worse on exams without ChatGPT after using it to study, UNESCO's projected 44M-teacher global shortage by 2030, and more than 56,000 unfilled US teaching positions.