Why are people talking about AI teachers as if they are good news? The generation taught by AI teachers will probably never be able to get a job. (At least those among them who study teaching.)
It’s good news for learning, not necessarily good news for jobs. If you care about creating “teaching” make-work jobs, but don’t care whether people know things, then it’s bad news.
I don’t understand. Only a very small fraction of people are teachers. Education does not exist primarily to make more teachers, it’s to help make everything that is productive. Seems great for humans to no longer have to be teachers.
An AI than can replace a teacher in year Y is probably going to replace most white-collar jobs in Y+5. Therefore, when your kids get an AI teacher at school, you should take it as a signal that the job market for humans is going to be over sooner than they finish their education.
That may be a good thing, in case of a nice Singularity. But even then, the education will be irrelevant.
Seems to me that people who look forward to having great AI teachers are imagining a future where we get great AI teachers but everything else remains the same… and then it will be up to the children educated by those great AI teachers to change the world. That future is unlikely to happen.
Yeah, agree with that, though given that I think many good futures route through substantial pauses, or substantial improvements in human coordination technology, mapping out the degree to which AI systems can uplift people before it is capable of disempowering them is a pretty crucial thing to map, so I don’t super agree with this equivocation.
Why are people talking about AI teachers as if they are good news? The generation taught by AI teachers will probably never be able to get a job. (At least those among them who study teaching.)
It’s good news for learning, not necessarily good news for jobs. If you care about creating “teaching” make-work jobs, but don’t care whether people know things, then it’s bad news.
I don’t understand. Only a very small fraction of people are teachers. Education does not exist primarily to make more teachers, it’s to help make everything that is productive. Seems great for humans to no longer have to be teachers.
An AI than can replace a teacher in year Y is probably going to replace most white-collar jobs in Y+5. Therefore, when your kids get an AI teacher at school, you should take it as a signal that the job market for humans is going to be over sooner than they finish their education.
That may be a good thing, in case of a nice Singularity. But even then, the education will be irrelevant.
Seems to me that people who look forward to having great AI teachers are imagining a future where we get great AI teachers but everything else remains the same… and then it will be up to the children educated by those great AI teachers to change the world. That future is unlikely to happen.
Yeah, agree with that, though given that I think many good futures route through substantial pauses, or substantial improvements in human coordination technology, mapping out the degree to which AI systems can uplift people before it is capable of disempowering them is a pretty crucial thing to map, so I don’t super agree with this equivocation.