AI in education: 11 real deployments

Banned AI-assisted grading and AI use in Social Sciences Core, mandating device-free classrooms and human-authored syllabi

HeyGen-built AI avatar clones of faculty providing on-demand coaching and feedback on practice pitches and mock board meetings in an online entrepreneurship bootcamp

mandated screen-monitoring tools during in-school written exams, firewall filtering of online content during teaching hours, and oral defenses for approximately 9,000 upper-secondary SSO exam students to prevent AI-assisted cheating

A Turkish private-school chain piloted a curriculum-customized ChatGPT assistant with 193 teachers serving more than 2,800 middle- and high-school students.

Reported: The randomized trial found students rated classes as less enjoyable, interesting and important; students of weaker instructors also scored lower on standardized finals.

Salamanca City Central School District paused its planned classroom deployment of a lifelike humanoid robot after community objections and a warning from New York's education commissioner.

Reported: The $57,590 pilot is on hold pending enhanced student-data privacy agreements with the state.

Dartmouth deployed the Phosphor AI tutor platform as an optional, ungraded aid in its MATH 010 course with 143 students in Spring 2026, aligned to on-paper, in-person exams.

Reported: Effect sizes of 0.71-1.30 standard deviations on final exam performance, the high end of the intervention literature.

Alpha School operates a K-12 network that replaces teachers with 'guides' and delivers personalized instruction through its proprietary '2 Hour Learning' AI software, at tuition of $10K to $75K per year.

Google ran a 1,763-student randomized controlled trial of Gemini 'Guided Learning' tutoring in Sierra Leone schools.

Reported: 1.8-2.5 years of math gains; median students moved to the 64th percentile.

Khan Academy redesigned its classroom platform around a Learner Queue and a tighter teacher loop, embedding the Khanmigo AI tutor rather than bolting it on, after low regular usage of the original side-panel version.

Reported: Only 15% of students regularly used the original Khanmigo.

Launched the OpenAI x MHESI AI Accelerator in Bangkok, an 8-week public-private AI program for 10 Thai health, wellness, and education startups in partnership with the Thai government, NIA, Mahidol University, and Techsauce

Deployed Personality AI's generative AI platform for Amazon Kids+ in 2025