High School Starts Replacing Teachers with AI

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Hopefully a patch on the ever-increasing cost of skilled labor. Plus they have infinite patience and long office hours. And all comms are logged

Broke: paying teachers a living wage, allowing educators to unionize, promoting positive social interaction

Woke: Training kids on social interactions and appropriate conduct with an LLM that cannot reliably solve basic math or simple interpersonal disputes

> A high school in London, UK will let students around the age of 15 use AI tools before taking standardized exams next year, despite experts warning that they make for a poor replacement for human teachers.

> As Business Insider reports, David Game College's pilot project is meant to help students who are struggling to keep up — and also, the students far outpacing the others.

Yes, there's probably a load of delusional BS in this idea. OTOH, "let students use an AI before taking an exam" is damned different from "replacing teachers". And if you are a kid who's well ahead or behind, and want a well-qualified human teacher who is right at your level in every subject? Yeah...that's a "your 0.01% parents hired private tutors" scenario.

Ah, this is in the UK. Couldn't do this in the US because AI can't carry a sidearm against school shooters yet.

Replacing teachers with AI today.

Replacing schools with prison camps tomorrow.

What could go qrong?

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