AI in classes should generate questions, not give answers

When Al enters a classroom, the measure of success is not whether students are using it but whether they are learning while they do, said Elizabeth Kelly, who leads beneficial deployment work at Anthropic.

- Binayak Dasgupta

Her team’s approach in India, she told Hindustan Times at the Al Impact Summit, is to build tools that generate questions rather than answers — requiring students to do the cognitive work before any AI feedback begins.

The emphasis is deliberate, because Anthropic’s own data suggests the default runs the other way. The company’s India country brief, released days before the summit, found that Indian users delegate more decision-making autonomy to Al than the global average, that a fifth of Indian Claude use is coursework, and that students ask the model for direct answers nearly half the time — bypassing the reasoning that builds understanding.