AI Tutoring Already Wins at Every Level, but Education's Social Role Can't Be Automated Away
tracewoodgrains · x · 2026-10-15
In a debate with @panickssery, tracewoodgrains concedes that tutor+AI likely already dominates human tutors at every ability level, but pushes back on two fronts. First, questions of what to teach, how, and why are judgments humans shouldn't fully abdicate — the remaining disagreement is largely a zero-sum culture war over curriculum content. Second, the social elements of education can't be replaced by kids learning alone in front of screens. He also notes that 'theoretically better' is still far from 'actually happening and diffusing adequately.'
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