AI in South Asian Classrooms: Pendulums of Opportunities and Challenges Tanvir Mostafa In education policy, artificial intelligence has gone from the periphery to the center. Ministries, school systems and teachers believe in AI’s potential for lesson planning, tutoring, assessment and managing schools. UNESCO now frames AI as a tool that might ultimately help solve some of education’s biggest challenges, accelerating progress toward SDG 4, but also cautions that the technol