Re:Teacher AI Use Is Already Out of Control and It's Not Ok
by meindnoch on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:56AM
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>There's also a question of apprenticeships over the current schooling system. Robotics' AI are not as advanced as VLMs, so while plumbing will get solved eventually (and a tentacle robot arm with a camera in each "finger" is clearly superior to our human arms in tight spaces), right now it still looks like a sane thing to train in.
This is the current meta. Today's knowledge workers are propertymaxxing like crazy, and sending their kids to trade school. Well, at least those who see the writing on the wall. The second half of the 021st century will see the rise of the PLIWs [1]. Knowledge work will become extinct. The social order will be:
1. elites: a small aristocracy, who control the access to AI
2. middle class: PLIWs
3. low class: children of today's knowledge workers who couldn't amass sufficient wealth for their kids to become PLIWs. Also called slop-feeders, as their job is to carry out the instructions coming from the AIs without questioning or understanding what they're doing.
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[1] PLIW = Physical Labour, Inherited Wealth
IIRC, it may be better to have the same number of real humans focussing on fewer pupils. Even when they're using VLMs as assistants.
Students:
While humans max out at a higher skill level than VLMs, I suspect that most (not all!) people who would otherwise have finished education at their local mandatory school leaving age, may be better off finishing school as soon as they can use a VLM.
But also #1: There's also a question of apprenticeships over the current schooling system. Robotics' AI are not as advanced as VLMs, so while plumbing will get solved eventually (and a tentacle robot arm with a camera in each "finger" is clearly superior to our human arms in tight spaces), right now it still looks like a sane thing to train in.
But also #2: Telling who is and isn't getting anything out of the education system is really hard; not only in historical systems like the UK's old eleven-plus exams, but today after university graduation when it can sometimes take a bit of effort to detect that someone only got a degree for the prestige and didn't really learn anything.