[ExI] ai in education

[Keith Henson]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The math seems to indicate that Universities will soon be obsolete.
> Perhaps before the rest of us are because of the long payoff periods
> involved. Someone smart enough to think about going to a university should
> be smart enough to figure out the payback period, and student loans don't
> pay themselves. If you're going just for beer and sex, there are cheaper
> ways to get there.
>

Very few people recognize it, but the main reason to go to a prestigious
university is the people you meet.  It is a way to jump several social and
economic classes or maintain your level.  The only person I know who did
understand this is Ester Dyson.  Freeman visited her at Harvard and did not
understand what she was doing.  She parlayed being a Harvard graduate into
a substantial fortune.

I certainly did not have a clue about such things or I would have made a
different choice of schools and what I did there.

Keith

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> -Kelly
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> On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 8:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Even at the top universities, AI is developing faster than the education
>> industry can adapt.  I heard from a top computer science student that he
>> labored over an assignment for ten hours, finished it, then handed the
>> specifications to Grok AI which completed the assignment in minutes.  It is
>> unclear why we need humans to know how to do that skill.  The student
>> questioned if he should be studying how to install heating and air
>> conditioning units rather than bothering to master computer science.
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>> Here’s Stanford’s interesting take on AI in education.  I don’t know if
>> the links will work:
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>> [image: Stanford HAI] <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/bumdiaq>
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>> A bi-weekly newsletter from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered
>> Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
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>> Rethinking Education in the AI Era
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/7eodiaq>
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>> The fourth annual AI+Education Summit, convened by Stanford HAI
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/n7odiaq> and the Stanford
>> Accelerator for Learning
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/3zpdiaq> on February 11,
>> surfaced a sobering reality: AI isn't simply changing how we teach, it’s
>> making us confront why we teach the way we do.
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>> Educators, researchers, and policy experts identified critical pressure
>> points:
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>>    - Education assessment is facing a crisis as traditional evaluation
>>    methods lose validity;
>>    - Schools confront a deluge of AI products with little guidance on
>>    efficacy;
>>    - AI access remains stubbornly inequitable;
>>    - AI literacy gaps widen daily among both students and teachers;
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>> And, perhaps most importantly, discussions emphasized what remains
>> irreplaceable: genuine human connection in learning.
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>> Want more on this topic?
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>> �� *Read the insights from the summit*
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/jsqdiaq>
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>> �� *Watch the conference sessions on our YouTube channel*
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/zkrdiaq>
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>> ��️ *Attend an upcoming HAI seminar led by HAI Faculty Affiliate Hari
>> Subramonyam on “Learning by Creating: A Human-Centered Vision for AI in
>> Education”* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/fdsdiaq>
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>> Latest AI research & analysis
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>> *Governments around the world are racing to achieve “AI sovereignty.”*
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/v5sdiaq> But there’s one
>> problem: Nobody agrees on what it means. The concept inherits unresolved
>> tensions from decades-old debates about technological independence, while
>> simultaneously addressing today’s complex AI dependencies. Stanford HAI
>> scholars identify four factors
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/bytdiaq> driving this
>> definitional dilemma.
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>> *How can AI support language digitization and digital inclusion?*
>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/rqudiaq> Our recently
>> published white paper examines AI’s potential for digital inclusion while
>> providing recommendations for responsible implementation that respects
>> linguistic diversity and community priorities.
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>> <https://t.e2ma.net/click/jce990/r2rnl9ge/7ivdiaq>
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