Minds, Machines, and Classrooms: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Teaching and the Way Ahead

Abstract

History was created in 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the then world chess champion Garry 
Kasparov. With its brute force computing power, IBM’s Deep Blue, could process more than 200 million possible chess moves per second. 2025 - almost three decades later, that moment feels idiosyncratic. Today’s machines are capable of not just calculating but they can generate art, write essays, compose music, and even hold conversations that mimic humans. What began as an inquiry into whether machines could ‘out-smart’ us has become a deeper inquiry: how do minds and machines now think together?