Vendors and researchers are advancing student‑centered AI that captures unsupervised study interactions to surface comprehension gaps—approaches vendors say produce actionable, real‑time insights that teacher‑initiated systems miss. TrekAi and other platforms pitched student‑driven workflows at webinars and district briefings as a path to earlier intervention and measurable outcomes. At the same time, social‑emotional‑learning (SEL) experts and psychologists voiced caution at CASEL’s conference and in advisory notes: AI can create 'emotional offload' where students cede social and emotional reasoning to chatbots, altering development and relationship formation. Gallup data showing growing teen use of generative chatbots and an American Psychological Association advisory on adolescent risk emphasize that institutions must pair innovation with privacy safeguards, evidence on developmental impact, and rigorous evaluation.