AI's Real Gift to Young People: Killing the School Grind

The argument is not subtle, and it does not need to be. AI will do more to lift capitalism in the eyes of young people than any other force in a generation, because AI is finally breaking the thing they hate most: school as it is currently taught.

Elon Musk is the exhibit. His teachers in South Africa thought he was slow, or odd, or both. He was not good at the subjects the system valued. He was good at things the system did not test. The same story plays out in millions of classrooms every year, minus the billion-dollar outcome.

The problem with education is not bad teachers, or not enough vouchers, or the structure of government schools. The problem is the definition of a good education itself. The experts say it is proficiency in math, science, English, social studies, and history. Subjects centuries old. The same list, essentially, that has defined a