High literacy is required to build safe and high-trust societies, this is what we can achieve with personized AI agents for learning.
The education system is broken, this is an opinion that most people share.
There are so much evidence to argue in support of this conclusion, and for once, in a long time coming, we have a solution to the problem.
The irony of it all is that this comes from a technology that is set to tear down the system that has taught people to go through school, simply to get a job.
Being educated should never be about getting a job. It should be about understanding ourselves, others and everything around us. This understanding is necessary for each individual to be a net-positive to society.
Traditional educational systems have not be designed to sell this, instead, they've been set up to train slaves for a paper economy.
All of which could change with artificial intelligence in the picture. School has been understood by many to be a scam, in a lot of ways, it has been just that.
Although, the term "scam" only vaguely describes what it is.
Schools are not just set up to extract monetary value, they are designed to condition people into a system of narrow paths with limited opportunities, especially when you do not already belong to a circle with high-value network.
As much as $5 trillion is spent annually on education globally, yet we cannot truly be confident in the literacy of the masses.
Schools are growing richer, having investment arms while students graduate into debt and can barely own and hold on to anything.
What was it all for?
The $1,500 - $12,000 for basic education?
The severally other thousands in the university?
What was it for? Some people come out and don't even appear to have grown through school.
Maybe as a result of paying their way through to get a piece of paper because the motivation has always been getting a job, or maybe it's just that at the end of the day, those pieces of papers really held no significant real world value.
Whichever it is, the system is broken. The education system needs to be improved and here's where AI comes in.
Personalized AI agents for learning
As I mentioned above, we cannot even trust the average person to be literate, even when they've gone through school.
The most fundamental reason for this is that schools are not designed to build people into their better selves, individually, so many people just tag along even when they are not improving as a person.
Personalized AI agents for learning will solve this. Instead of having to learn with the pace of people that are naturally gifted to absorb knowledge faster, personalized AI agents for learning will be optimized to build up people at their own unique pace.
If a person's learning capacity requires spending 6 weeks on one topic, while others do it in 2, then their personized AI agents for learning will have to design their lessons to match their capacity, because that matters more than catching up and staying on pace with peers.
The best part about this is that it will probably cost much less than traditional education and will be more flexible.
I think that over the next 3-5 decades, we'll see the educated public grow significantly, and this new highs in literacy will make our societies safer and high-trust.
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As an educator, I disagrees on many levels. Firstly, schools babysit YOUR kids. Most people couldn't do their jobs, meaningful or otherwise, without them. Two, schools are about socialism and human connection, something AI can't provide. Whilst your experience might be different, a good school will educate beyond say science and maths, and teach values, ethics, drug and alcohol awareness, sex education etc etc. fourthly, big tech has entered schools before. Where it fails is it never can replace the passion of human teachers that drive and foster curiosity, which is the centre of learning. Whilst I concede not all educators can do this, perhaps money and time should be spent on excellent teacher training. Lastly, AI has yet to prove it's not wrong 100 percent of the time. It often tells us what we want to hear rather than engage with us honestly. Kids are already using AO to supplement their learning, but the trick is teaching them to use it wisely - students are still learning to be discerning, to understand where vested interest lies (are there safeguards to companies embedding AI with bias??), to know when AI is bending them in one direction, to understand legitimate sources, let alone navigate human relationships. I really protest against such a shallow and clearly bitter view of education as it stands ... Whilst the model doesn't serve every one, and has its failings, it's the best we have got and teachers work so hard to support and better students. To say AI can and should replace them is simplistic at best.
Respect to you, there are many great educators that deserve their medals.
But the facts remain and I'll start by saying that there are many ways to build human connections besides schools.
You speak of AI's dishonesty as if human educators can't be dishonest.
The focus of this post was "personalized learning," where individuals can gain access to learning experiences that are tailored to their capacity, something that would prove very expensive with human educators.
I also think that the "human connection" is becoming a terrible argument that comes up when there's nothing else to argue against AI adoption, I've heard and read it so many times that it no longer feels like something to truly consider.
My reasons being that AI can be designed to mimic humans in whatever way needed and in any form, at some point there will be not much difference.
It will be able to lie to protect our feelings, cheat to please, to your "babysitter" comment: AI will have far more tolerance and everything else. There's not much anyone can do to stop it because the upsides are appealing, in many ways, and none of these things stops anyone who believes they shouldn't use AI.
From reading your comment, it sounds like you think I'm advocating for educators to be replaced, while the reality is that I'm simply pointing out what can be.
I look at the numbers and I present them, with what I think about them. That's it.
AI can be used for a lot of good and a lot of bad, as everything else under the sun.