LearnSphere AI
AI is a helpful tool. We want to help people use it to build, create, and learn.
A sketch that becomes a picture. A half-formed idea that finally has a shape. A student who tries something she would not have started alone.
What we are for
A helper for people who want to try something.
These systems guess the next likely word. Once you know that, they get more useful, and more fun. You can bounce an idea off them, hear a sentence another way, start a drawing you were too shy to begin.
LearnSphere helps people treat AI that way: something you can learn how to use, get good at, and make things with that feel like yours.
The good version is quiet. Someone with time to sit down next to a person who is stuck. A person who brought something to show. That is what we are aiming at, and it is the part that rarely makes the news.
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A starting point, not the finished thing
It can hand you a first line, a rough shape, another angle. What happens next is yours.
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Time back, spent on making
An hour off a teacher’s paperwork is an hour in the room. A quick draft leaves more room for a good one.
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Nerve to try the thing
A shy writer starts a scene. Someone who never drew begins. A student who was stuck sees a path.
Rooms we have been in
Most of this work happened in person.
2025 · Yale, AI literacy summitA day on what students should know before they open the tool.
Who we are
Dorota, Francesca, and Nicolas.
Dorota has been opening schools since 2011. Francesca is a student who wants her peers to meet these tools as something they can make with. Nicolas came from research on how AI changes teaching, writing, and who gets to read a hard book.
Dorota Mani
Educator
Francesca Mani
Student advocate
Nicolas Gertler
Researcher
You can use this now
A few lines for a handbook.
So a school can say, kindly and clearly, how students should treat one another while they learn. Copy it, edit it, adopt it.
Copy the languageSection 4 · Acceptable use
“The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create, distribute, or promote harmful content, such as deepfakes, altered images, or false information intended to harass, intimidate, or bully another individual, is strictly prohibited.”
“Students are expected to use AI responsibly and ethically, aligning with the principles of academic integrity, respect for others, and community safety.”
How we began
A school question that would not stay in one building.
Dorota had been opening schools since 2011. In 2023, Francesca was fourteen, and these tools were already in every backpack. The handbook had not caught up. Dorota started asking what the next class should be taught. Francesca started asking why students were not in the room when adults wrote the rules.
That thread went from a New Jersey school board to Congress. LearnSphere grew from a Capitol gathering in November 2024. At Yale the following spring, they held a summit on AI literacy: what students should know before they open the tool.
Westfield, New Jersey
Francesca is fourteen. The tools are already in every backpack and the handbook has no answer for them.
House Oversight
Dorota testifies. She asks for two things: AI taught in schools, and conduct codes that keep up.
TIME100 AI
TIME names Francesca one of the hundred most influential people in AI. She is sixteen.
Capitol Hill
A gathering on youth and AI. Dorota testifies to Senate Commerce. The three of us leave with the same idea, and LearnSphere starts.
Newark
Governor Murphy signs New Jersey’s deepfake law. His office says Francesca’s advocacy helped inspire it.
Yale
A summit on AI literacy: what a student should understand before opening the tool.
The Rose Garden
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is signed. Two years, from a one-day suspension to federal law.
Being Human in the Age of AI
Writing down the good version, so the next school has something to teach and not only something to ban.