Published: 6:00pm, 7 Jan 2025Updated: 6:06pm, 7 Jan 2025
A father in China who let artificial intelligence (AI) tutor his primary school son’s homework for him has sparked a debate on social media about educational ethics.
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The boy’s mother, surnamed Jiang, from eastern China’s Shandong province, caught her husband transferring the responsibility for tutoring their son’s homework to AI on December 29 as he played on his mobile phone.
The husband panicked when she came into the room.
Their primary school-age child told her that his father asked him to use AI when he got stuck with his homework.
He used the Kimi AI chatbot, developed by Beijing company Moonshot AI and launched in October 2023, and was advertised to be able to handle two million Chinese characters with a single prompt.
The boy sent an image of a question in a maths exercise book, and the AI chatbot replied with analysis and results.