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The California Community Colleges system is expanding access to an AI platform from an education technology company called Nectir AI.

Eighty-four community colleges participated in a pilot program last year, according to reporting by Axios . And now the technology is expanding statewide.

Here’s how it works...

Educators upload course materials and lectures that the AI learns. They can also set certain rules — like whether it can pull in outside knowledge, or should only rely on uploaded material.

Then, students can use the chatbot as a kind of personal teacher.

Not everyone is convinced that classrooms need more AI.

A study from MIT published earlier this year found that students who used AI writing tools underperform

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