More than two years since its boom in popularity, generative artificial intelligence is now in wide use by education professionals to streamline menial tasks and expand learning modalities, in spite of concerns about accuracy, data privacy and algorithmic bias. Now a new variation on the technology — the AI agent — promises to bring even more agency to autonomous education tools, with some schools already using them to recruit students and create custom chatbots trained with course materials. Eventually, AI agents might help with advising, alumni relations and more.
