THE AI REVOLUTION. HOPE FOR THE KIDS!!
This is a sequel to my previous email (yesterday) in which I touted the necessity of developing our critical thinking skills. I remarked, “This looks like a job for Superman,” but more astutely and accurately I would have said “ this looks like a job for AI.”
AI development is rocketing at the speed of light. The dangers, including the creation of a new species and the extinction of ours have been widely publicized and acknowledged. We, and the best and most moral intellects among us must be constantly vigilant
The positive implications are beyond my understanding and imagination, but educative uses as set forth below are soul shaking.
We are entering an axial age of transformation with the potential to bring us into a realm of excellence that we thought was beyond our reach. Now we have it within our grasp. Note well, for example, the ubiquitous uses to which AI is being put at the Large Hadron where it’s computational process (learning from data/ machine learning) will revolutionize particle physics. We are standing at the brink of something massive. The world as we know it is over. Experts say we have about a year to react More conversation at another time about the endlessly fascinating subject of deep learning.
The following is from an article in C&C News…
Now let’s hit the education beat, where a quiet revolution is underway (I wonder what it takes to have an AI tutor on my own, finally a means, if not to slake my curiosity, at least to make a dent in it. — and it’s not coming from Harvard’s Ed School. For a change, it’s some good news from the AI world. Yesterday, Fox ran a story headlined, “Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country.” It might say less about A.I. than it does about the woeful state of education in this country and hope for the kids.
And it says a lot that left-wing corporate media ignored the story.
This year, the Alpha School in Austin, Texas began experimenting with an all-AI curriculum. Students get two hours a day with an AI tutor, then spend the rest of the day practicing skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork.
No teachers.
The results so far have been spectacular.
Alpha School co-founder Mackenzie Price told Fox & Friends, "We use an AI tutor and adaptive apps to provide a completely personalized learning experience for all of our students, and our students are learning faster, they’re learning way better. In fact, our classes are in the top 2% in the country.”
One Alpha parent tweeted yesterday that his kids are newly excited to go to school. After their two hours of personalized AI instruction, they leave their desks and get to do all kinds of fun, social things with other students:
Like it or not, the future of education is splitting into two camps — one that keeps doubling down on centralized indoctrination —DEI, test scores, and assembly-line bureaucracy— versus another one that’s quietly blowing up the model, and transforming classrooms into something … different, more like life labs.
I’ve predicted — and still believe — that 🔥average teachers are the one career most at risk of immediate replacement by the coming AI revolution.
Not the good ones. Not the brilliant mentors who awaken young minds and teach with fire in their bones. They’re safe and will always be safe. In fact, they will probably become even more valued — because when A.I. covers the basics, great teachers are freed to do what they do best:🔥 inspire.
But here’s the problem: how many truly great teachers are there? Really? Maybe we don’t even know, since they’re all buried under red tape.
Most classrooms in America are run by well-meaning babysitters with lesson plans. Not malicious. Just average. And average isn’t going to cut it anymore.
♥️ When a student can get an adaptive, errorless, infinitely patient, and totally personalized tutor for free on a tablet, why would anyone tolerate confusion, conflict, boredom, mediocrity, and indifference in a physical classroom?
Don’t blame AI. AI isn’t making routine teaching jobs obsolete. The system did that. AI is just shining a spotlight on it. This isn’t a war between teachers and AI. It’s a sorting process — between instructors who bring real value to the teacher-student relationship, and those who were just holding the keys to the classroom.
Imagine how furiously the teachers’ unions will likely react: litigate, agitate, and regulate— the holy trinity of institutional self-preservation. They’ll scream about equity, invent “AI isolation,” and demand emergency funding for “human-first pedagogy.”
Next, consider how Trump’s “big beautiful bill” blueprint includes a strange 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation. It appears that some folks have already warmed this whole thing. (It’s not at all clear, by the way, that the moratorium can survive Senate scrutiny, since everything in the reconciliation bill must relate to the budget.)
We’re not only witnessing a technological revolution — we’re also witnessing an accountability revolution, and AI is the delivery mechanism.
The old systems — education, media, bureaucracy — aren’t being dismantled by force. They’re just being outperformed. For better or worse, the AI genie isn’t going back in the bottle. The spotlight is on, and the sorting has already begun.
It’s night and day. Parents who can review AI chat logs have much more transparency into what their kids are learning. The technology even exists for parents to monitor the session in real-time. Contrast that with teachers unions’ successful bans on cameras in classrooms.
To me, this seems like undeniably good news for the most mistreated group in America: the kids. 🔥