Its really something to just casually say “all exams need to be in person”, reversing in a single move significant gains in education availability.
It may not be obvious in a country with smaller student to teacher ratios, but for a place like India, you never have enough teachers for students.
Being able to provide courses, and homework digitally, reduced the amount of work required to grade and review work.
Then to add insult to injury, AI is removing entry level roles, removing other chances for people to do work which is easy to verify, practice and learn from.
Yes, yes, eventually tool use will result in increases in GDP. Except our incentives are not to hire more teachers, build more schools, and improve educational outcomes. Those are all public goods, not private goods. We aren’t going to tax firms further, because commerce must be protected, yet we will socialize the costs to society.
It may not be obvious in a country with smaller student to teacher ratios, but for a place like India, you never have enough teachers for students.
Being able to provide courses, and homework digitally, reduced the amount of work required to grade and review work.
Then to add insult to injury, AI is removing entry level roles, removing other chances for people to do work which is easy to verify, practice and learn from.
Yes, yes, eventually tool use will result in increases in GDP. Except our incentives are not to hire more teachers, build more schools, and improve educational outcomes. Those are all public goods, not private goods. We aren’t going to tax firms further, because commerce must be protected, yet we will socialize the costs to society.