# If AI has the answers, how can our kids learn?

- Date: 2026-10-15
- Added: 2026-10-16
- Who: Liew Wei Li (Director-General of Education) · govsg
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgwbTnndjy4
- sgai: https://sgai.md/videos/v122/
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## Why it matters

Director-General of Education Liew Wei Li sets the direction of AI education policy through govsg: technology to assist rather than replace teachers, establishing a precedent for human-machine role division in Singapore classrooms

## Summary

AI can support learning but cannot replace human guidance. The key is teaching children when to use AI, when to question it, and when to think independently.

## Full text

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We have to teach the students how to use AI eventually [music] but use it in the right way such that it does not deskkill them. If you just try to get the answer from it then you wouldn't have learned. So actually struggle is productive. How will you be able to check whether the product of AI is correct? The teacher becomes even more important in the age of AI. You need someone present there to make the interventions at the right places.