A separate study released last month tested the use of Khanmigo, Khan Academy’s AI tutor that relies on OpenAI’s technology. During the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years, researchers Philip Oreopoulos and Nina Low randomly assigned students in 18 Hamilton County, Tennessee, middle schools to use the program for math practice. But while nearly all students with Khanmigo used it at least once, “engagement was thin,” they wrote.
Students only consulted Khanmigo a third of the days they practiced math and just 17% of the times they made a mistake. Learning gains were about the same as they would have been had students not used the program, the researchers wrote.