The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest AI risk in schools isn't cheating – it's students losing the desire to learn

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Winners & losers: The problem of students using AI to cheat in schools is well documented, but Fei-Fei Li, aka The Godmother of AI, thinks there's a bigger risk. The Stanford computer science professor believes access to the technology will take away students' motivation and agency to learn. Nevertheless, Li doesn't believe a blanket ban is a good idea.

Speaking on an episode of the science podcast Huberman Lab this week, Li talked about the fears around how students are using AI.

"The absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human-level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools," the ImageNet inventor warned. "It should not be taken away by humans nor should it be taken away by machines."