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Hey Teachers — AI is Going To Replace You

Some consideration of the possible future of school

We’re about 1.5 years on from AI’s permanent move into the zeitgeist, and it seems like the initial discourse around how fundamentally things are going to change was, if anything, understated. I won’t suggest that anyone looking to make a counterargument can no longer do so, but the grounds on which such arguments can be advanced continue to diminish. Absent some sort of unexpected plateau in the technology, or some heretofore unanticipated negative feedback loop in the larger systems, I don’t see any clear end to the impacts of AI in society. Retrospectively, the technology is developing unevenly, slower to advance in some areas and faster in others. But whatever the vagaries of the day-to-day progression might be, in the long-term trajectory, things seem to be pressing forward, fast.

And it is from this perspective that I will make the following note: AI is going to bring significant changes to teaching and learning, quickly.

This doesn’t feel like a remotely controversial point to me. But so much of the discourse I see in my usual haunts is generally dominated by a theme of AI impacts on education being overblown. This line of argument suggests that teaching is somehow a special human skill, and that it will require a series of…