Faster, Please!

Faster, Please!

✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI

Schools botched the smartphone era. They can’t afford to repeat those mistakes with artificial intelligence

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James Pethokoukis
Dec 02, 2025
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My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:

Artificial intelligence promises to enhance learning by hyper-personalizing instruction. The internet democratized information, now AI is democratizing expertise. The dream her is the creation of a kind of super-smart, always-available AI tutor — like the lifelike and life-long teaching companion, or “illustrated primer,” imagined in Neal Stephenson’s novel The Diamond Age. It would be a device that adjusts to a child’s needs, sparks curiosity, provides instant feedback, and builds real thinking skills rather than just handing over answers.1

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