OpenAI education head to students: If you use AI as an answer machine, you are not …

OpenAI’s vice president of Education, Leah Belsky, has urged students and institutions to change the way how they view artificial intelligence (AI). Rather than banning the technology, Belsky argues that students must learn to use AI as a powerful tool to enhance critical thinking and creativity, not simply as an “answer machine.”

Belsky, who has led OpenAI’s education team since 2024, said on a company podcast (via Business Insider) that modern workers who use AI are “incredibly more productive.”