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.