Right. Most people are deeply uninterested in learning anything, not just in K-12, but at pretty good colleges like mine.

Modern AI has made me a more productive teacher—-I produce higher quality material and have more time for research.

But the impact on most students is negative. It is another thing to engage with, which they won’t unless forced. The only way to learn is to do the work yourself. An AI tutor can get you unstuck faster, but that’s typically bad. Learning to be productively stuck on something for days without making visible progress is an important skill that most people never learn.