AI Will Destroy Education, Teachers and Schools if we don't stop it

#AI #Education #EdTech #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #Teaching #InternetOfBugs #StandardizedTesting
Pilot programs show education, and teachers, are in the crosshairs of AI's plans. Yet the majority of the conversation about the risk of AI is about hypothetical SciFi dangers ages from now.

Sources:
// Standardized Testing and Accountability
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/standardized-testing-still-failing-students

// ChatGPT as lawyer or programmer
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/gpt-4-didnt-ace-the-bar-exam-after-all-mit-research-suggests-it-barely-passed
https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/?q=&sort_by=-date&states=USA&period_idx=0&page=2&page=3
https://the-decoder.com/openai-plans-gpt-4-5-release-within-weeks-sets-stage-for-gpt-5/
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

// AI's guardrails failing under various conditions
https://dwealth.news/2025/12/ai-regs-risks-the-collapse-of-ai-guardrails/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2025/08/29/openai-acknowledges-that-lengthy-conversations-with-chatgpt-and-gpt-5-might-regrettably-escape-ai-guardrails/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/26/chatgpt-openai-blame-technology-misuse-california-boy-suicide
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/openai-says-teens-misuse-chatgpt-234920814.html

// Current experiments with AI as tutors or teachers
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/study-shows-thousands-of-students-see-test-score-gains-in-just-25-minutes-with-eselfs-ai-avatar-tutors-302530283.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ai-tutoring-help-improve-test-003828948.html
https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-charter-school/

// ChatGPT encouraging teenager toward irrevocable self-harm
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-invs-vis

// Skinner Boxes in Education
https://www.simplypsychology.org/what-is-a-skinner-box.html
https://hackeducation.com/2015/02/10/skinners-box
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-engineered-student-on-b-f-skinners-teaching-machine/
https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjet.12860
https://www.educationnext.org/quest-for-an-automatic-teacher-book-review-teaching-machines-watters/

0:00 – The Threat to Education
1:38 – Intro
2:14 – The "No Child Left Behind" Legacy
3:02 – AI and the Optimization of Test Scores
3:45 – The Classroom as a Skinner Box
5:11 – Why Life is Not a Multiple Choice Test
7:07 – The Ethics and Guardrail Problem
8:36 – AI Tutors: The First Step Toward Replacement
9:40 – Monopolies, High Prices, and In-Lesson Ads
10:56 – Why It’s Up to Us to Stop It