How school will change in a world where every student can have a personal tutor powered by artificial intelligence? This question was answered by Jayna Devani, Education Lead for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East of OpenAI, and Antonio Pisante, CEO of Yellow Tech and President of AIFIA, in a video interview published on the YouTube channel of Andrea Muzii, former world memory champion and founder of Accademia Atena.
The message is clear: theAI will not replace the teacherbut it will make possible a Personalized tutoring at scale and a more accessible, flexible and inclusive learning.
Italy at the center of OpenAI’s educational strategy
During the interview, Devani underlined how Italy is playing a key role in the global strategy of OpenAI per l’education. OpenAI has in fact signed a framework agreement with the CRUIwhich represents 1.2 million students and 200,000 faculty and staff, as well as partnerships with major universities such as Bocconi University. “We are here in Italy to listen, learn and understand how i use cases in teaching and learning are truly supporting teachers and students, and then amplifying them to the rest of the world,” Devani explained, citing the main use case of ChatGPT: learning.
Democratic tutoring and impact on teachers’ work
Pisante, on the other hand, recounted the experience of Yellow Techwhich has already collaborated with over 500 high schools nationwide. “The biggest impact of AI on students is personalized tutoring. For the first time, everyone can have a tutor who adapts to their pace and their level of knowledge. Personalized tutoring has always been one of the most effective ways to learn, but it has never been democratic. With AI it becomes so.”
According to Pisante, AI is already changing even the daily work of people teachers in three main dimensions: productivity (faster preparation of lessons, materials, exercises and corrections), teaching quality (more targeted, updated and rich content) e rethinking the evaluation. Traditional homework, he noted, loses meaning if a student can delegate everything to AI; this is why many schools are experimenting oral interviewsclassroom activities, and assignments that explicitly integrate AI into the process.
The central role of the teacher and co-planning
Both for OpenAI that for Yellow Tech il role of the teacher will remain central. Devani described the work of OpenAI’s Education team as “a support for teachersnot a replacement”. He explained that OpenAI collaborates with schools, universities and Ministries of Education to share a vision on the evolution of technology, bring teachers the best practice already underway in other countries e co-design the use of AI in the classroom. “It is not our job to say how, when and why to use AI in schools. We want to build a general-purpose technology and co-design its adoption together with the experts, i.e. teachers.” He cited the example of a digital marketing teacher who, using the ChatGPT voice mode as a feedback assistant during student presentations, it integrates AI into the evaluation without replacing your own judgment.
Ethics, transparency and the future of learning
One of the most sensitive topics addressed in the interview is that of trust in the education system in the presence of AI. Pisante explained that AI must be put at the service of those who have educational competenceunderlining that the human being always remains responsible for the dimension relational, motivational and psychological. He then reiterated the importance of integrity and transparencyso that students and families understand the objectives and operating logic of AI tools. Among the operational proposals: avoid invasive data collectionguarantee students the possibility to opt out of training data and make visible the system prompt in schools. Another key theme is the risk of mental laziness. Devani explained that OpenAI is investing in longitudinal studies to measure if and how AI can improve skills such as critical thinking. He then spoke about the launch of the Study Mode in ChatGPTa method which, rather than providing the answer immediately, applies pedagogical principles, pushing the student to think. For the future, Devani imagines highly personalized learning paths e natively AI educational communitieswith governments, teachers and tech companies committed to redesigning curricula, ethical standards and assessment methods.