Artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize education, as calculators did, but it will not replace learning, said today Sam Altmanits head OpenAIthe American company that created the both popular and controversial artificial intelligence application ChatGPT.

“Homework will likely never be the same,” Altman noted at a conference at Keio University in Tokyo.

“We have a new tool for education. It’s a kind of word calculator,” he added. “The ways of teaching and assessing students will have to change,” he continued.

ChatGPT has impressed the world with its ability to produce human-like conversations, texts and translations in seconds.

But it has also raised concerns in many fields, including education, where some fear that students will misuse tools of this kind and thus neglect to produce original work.

Altman is currently on a world tour meeting with business leaders and policymakers to discuss both the opportunities created by productive artificial intelligence and its future regulation.

Today he said he was confident about the formation of safety valves, while again expressing fears.

“The tools we have are still extremely primitive compared to what we’ll have in a few years,” and OpenAI will feel “extremely responsible” if something goes wrong, he noted.

Altman also tried once again to allay concerns about the possible loss of many jobs due to artificial intelligence in the future. Admitting that “some jobs will be lost,” he noted that “new categories” of work will emerge.

“I don’t think this will have the impact on work that people expect,” he said, concluding: “Almost all the predictions are wrong.”