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Just to be clear: it's not for every student (at least not yet!). We are in a research phase sharing it with a limited subset of users. More details about our approach to the responsible development of AI: https://blog.khanacademy.org/aiguidelines/

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It better not be for every student. I am very familiar with Khan Academy as I am currently guiding a student through several AP courses on khanacademy. In my opinion, khan academy's time would be better spent fixing the UI for teachers, and improving the organization of the physics curriculum.

I would prefer that khan academy not be dragged into some PR fluff piece for some AI shill.

This argument has a pretty standard counterargument: organizations can and should do more than 1 thing at a time. It's a non-profit so you're probably better off contributing your ideas to them.

Do you know if/how someone can get involved with this at the research phase? I have a daughter who will be entering 1st grade next year and I'd be interested in having her try this out if there was a way of signing up.

The sign-up page to join our waitlist is here: https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs

But we aren't planning to allow folks to enroll / allow Khanmigo for folks with children under 13 at this time as part of our research phase.

I feel young again!! Logged into my account and an attempt to join the waitlist returns this:

"If you want to test Khanmigo, your parent or guardian needs to sign up. At this time, only people ages 18 and older are eligible to sign up. Please ask your parent or guardian sign up and add you to their account."

Or anyone outside the US :(

I was a high school English teacher for about ten years before transitioning into tech last July. Has KA explored assistive assessment tools for in-person instruction?

>it's not for every student (at least not yet!)

>Donation required after chosen from waitlist

So, it's for rich ones?

I frequently find myself in the middle of many things, one of them is that although I oppose the grotesque plunder of the public and citizens of countries by neo-aristocrats claiming to do one thing or another amidst blatant lies of social welfare, I also object to slavery and therefore cannot condone that everything should be free since people like being compensated for their work, and not by being indentured and forced to do things.

Things have to cost, even if they wouldn’t have to cost as much if we could stop the psychopaths at the top constantly plundering and raiding the resources of the productive people to maintain their parasitic and decadent lives.

Which is fine, but don't call it a donation.

My guess is that even though it's mandatory, it legally counts as a donation for tax deduction purposes.

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