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No way this is going to fail miserably
Traditionally, these pilot programs operate as a marketing program rather than an educational program.
You're going to see a class of students enter the system with enormous supplemental aid and resources. The AI will be included but largely incidental. The students will be cherry-picked for media optics, rather than randomly selected from within the school district. Tons of paid professionals will write long-winded hagiographies about the affordability and effectiveness of the program. Some Ivy League University or Fortune 500 business will make a big show of admitting the most charismatic and saleable student graduates.
Then the program will be rolled out to the rest of the country as quickly and sloppily as possible. AI will be jammed down people's throats. You'll get an earful about stupid idiot parents hysterically complaining about their dumb baby children, because they're afraid of The Terminator movies. This will be book-ended with Steven Pinker and Bill Gates calmly explaining how AI turns dumbies into geniuses. A string of movies and TV shows will be released about kids getting AI education and becoming too smart (and time traveling or getting magic powers or some other silly bullshit).
The YIMBY coalition of very informed TV nerds will be assembled to scream at anyone who doesn't like AI. If you don't like AI you're Ableist or a Bigot or Not Serious About Education. Meanwhile, we'll get an earful about how certain migrants and POCs are incapable of learning from AI because of their inferior genes. School districts will be told to either adopt AI or lose their funding / get taken over by the state / federal agencies. National media will be saturated with "AI is normal" media content until people stop resisting.
And all of this will culminate in more school privatization, more public education defunding, and more militant policing of young people. Because that's always been the real end goal.
Not when everyone gets an A!
Your i is upside down
A¡ mine is off center.
Data says otherwise.
Pretty good facial expression on Data though eh
That kid may not be old enough to get this
He can ask his LLM to explain it to him.
Oh well 😆
That's a strong Data point
You feel like sharing this data?
These data
:P
Eh personally I treat 'data' as a mass noun, like 'furniture'.
-- Frost
Your momma says otherwise