Demis Hassabis: AGI is coming and the entire education system needs to be flipped
minsuk_chang · x · 2026-11-16
Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis argues that AGI is coming while schools still teach skills AI will excel at, so the education system needs to be flipped. Reposter minsukchang adds: AI makes answers abundant, so kids should learn to love the messy process of arriving at one — real labs, real tools, real problems without answer keys, with navigating ambiguity as the new curriculum.
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