This is where AI comes in. Or where AI, hopefully, comes in. As remarkable as today’s AIs are, we have not reached the point where they can replace human teachers with magical textbooks. Though we are certainly at an inflection point where AI will reshape how we teach and learn, both in schools and after we leave them. At the same time, the ways in which AI will impact education in the near future are likely to be counterintuitive. They won’t replace teachers but will make classrooms more necessary. They may force us to learn more facts, not fewer, in school. And they will destroy the way we
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