India, Jan. 20 -- Paris (dpa) - Artificial intelligence (AI) can help children to solve tasks and get better results in school, but ultimately may hinder learning and lead to laziness and disinterest, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Sophisticated AI chatbots such as Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT can improve pupils' task performance but don't necessarily lead to learning progress, researchers with the collective of data-sharing countries said, citing new findings. When it comes to AI's ability to help children, there is also a discrepancy between task performance and genuine learning. "Offloading cognitive tasks to general-purpose chatbots creates risks of metacognitive laziness and disengagement t...