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I think it's much simpler than this. Either you're an autodidact or you're not. Children who are predisposed to teaching themselves stuff will now have more tools to help them learn what they want to learn.

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When I learned through Encyclopedias and later from CD-ROM based formats like Microsoft encarta or The Way Things Work there were actually people creating the chapters. Later Wikipedia came about and spun up its own flavor of community based information, however flawed, there’s still a person curating information.

Now there’s this AI who can spit out information with the hubris of Harvard professor. The language model has no idea if it’s correct or not and there no one curating answers. No one can explain how it came up with the answer but it’s correct in a lot of cases.

I don't think there's a big issue with an unreliable tutor; a Harvard professor can spit out incorrect information, too. It's up to the learner to cross-check and verify the information. If you're uncritically ingesting facts from some other intelligence (artificial or otherwise), you won't be learning much anyway. The best lessons come when you make connections between different bits of information, so if an unreliable tutor forces you to make more of those connections in the process of checking its work, so be it.

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