--- Why is the sky red at dawn?
The angels are baking, honey! ---
You give a lot of credit to people
In the future I expect AI tutors to ask more questions of students to quickly identify where their knowledge gaps are (so they won't even have to formulate the "bad" questions themselves).
I'd change that to "the future will be wonderful for whoever is able to afford this technology." AI has the power to give some people a massive competitive advantage over others, and some people will be willing to spend a lot to keep that to themselves. It'll be democratized to an extent but you can be absolutely certain "AI tutors" will be a market, and people at lower incomes won't be able to afford the best ones (which is fine, it's just like human tutors. That's capitalism.).
Also I personally think you are under a misconception. Commoditised high quality AI tutors would increase variance/inequality of outcomes, not decrease it. As it would increase the learning rate of gifted individuals even more drastically than the one of the general population.
The more edtech improves and becomes cheaper, the more the limits of individuals will be set by their biological constraints. Which are mostly genetics
I already used GPT to help me tutor my kids, and for my kids to use it when they get stuck. They get unstuck faster. They are critical but also more willing to accept response as fact, we discuss this regularly and they seem to be getting the point.
so many kids get left behind because a teacher is unable to spend time with them, how amazing will it not be for each student to have their own supporting teacher?
hopefully, we will be able to harness AI for the better and good.