{
  "id": 16037,
  "url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/ai-tutors-are-praising-instead-of-teaching-heres-why-thats-hurting-students",
  "title": "Opinion: AI Tutors Are Praising Instead of Teaching. Here’s Why That’s Hurting Students",
  "summary": "As a professor, I recently gave a chatbot a weak student thesis, propped up by evidence that did not support the claim, and asked what it thought. It called the argument sharp, the structure clear and the reasoning strong. My job is to tell a student, kindly, when an argument is not working yet. But […]",
  "authors": "Davis Austria",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-03T18:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-04T05:10:21.797Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-74-education-ai",
  "source_name": "The 74 (education AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.the74million.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16037",
  "original_url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/ai-tutors-are-praising-instead-of-teaching-heres-why-thats-hurting-students",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}