A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

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As both the parent of newly graduated elementary and middle school students, and as a VC who invests in the technologies that could take away future jobs from our kids, I get this question a lot.