Schools should teach change, not skills: math community's identity crisis over AI
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-15
Soumitra Shukla's thread starts from mathematicians' intense reactions to rapid AI advances and traces how technological change has always been personal: looms falling silent, switchboards going dark, assembly lines shrinking — each carrying an identity crisis of what it means to master a craft.
Quote-tweeting, Rishi Joe Sanu draws an education lesson: schools shouldn't teach skills (the market does that); they should prepare kids for change management and creative destruction — a curiously humanities-adjacent endeavor.
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