Schooled by AI: What parents should know about the programs reshaping early education

From an iPad on their kitchen table, a digital voice reads out a story to Dipti Bhide and her son, Rohan.It's about an astronaut that went to Mars, met an alien and found some space rocks before coming back to Earth. The pair, who live in Coquitlam, B.C., are the first people to ever hear the story, which was created using suggestions from Rohan, which were then keyed into the artificial intelligence (AI) program his mother created. Rohan, who is eight years old, is completely absorbed in the st