The ‘Nonexistent’ Research on AI’s Benefits for Education

But numerous experts are urging caution, arguing that there’s not enough independent research on the efficacy of AI as a teaching and learning tool to guarantee big returns on these increasingly common investments. “The evidence base is almost nonexistent,” Justin Reich, a digital media professor and director of the Teaching Systems Lab at MIT, told Inside Higher Ed. “Building products and testing them rigorously takes a really long time, and there’s hardly any funding to do it.”