AI arrives precisely at the moment when an entire generation loses its ability to read, write, and sustain attention. When the human mind weakens, a substitute mind steps in. If a people can’t interpret text, can’t hold complexity, can’t question, can’t imagine — then the tool thinks for them. And once a tool starts thinking for you, it can start choosing for you.
Most Importantly: AI is not replacing intelligence; it’s replacing the practice that builds intelligence. When literacy drops, discernment drops. When discernment drops, narratives can be implanted. When narratives can be implanted, control becomes effortless. And that is exactly when AI enters the scene.
The bottom line:
A people who cannot read are a people who must be told. A people who cannot write are a people who cannot remember. A people who cannot think deeply are a people who can be guided anywhere.
The most important step to overcoming the new system is to educate our children. And that’s just not happening. That should be the biggest, most momentous effort right now—all our leaders should be talking and thinking about. In the end, it’s the only thing that matters.
The education system has been a target of the left for a long time. It went from a tool of instruction to indoctrination with the creation federal oversight during the Carter years with the Department of Education. Statistically, American students ARE dumber in many areas than they used to be ranging from history, critical thinking, civics, math, and reading.
The older exams are proof of that. What used to pass for a high-school education in the past may very well be a college level by today's standards in some respects. Just do a search for how many college placement exams have been dumbed down because scores were trending lower.
What we have going for us is that, yes, youth are starting to wake up and realize what has been stacked against them. Also, we have AI working in our favor in many respects. One of the focus of AI development is using it to help cater curriculum down to the student level. In other words, the AI will be utilized to analyze each individual student's learning style and comprehension level and aid teachers in providing assignments specialized to help students overcome learning challenges.
One of the biggest areas where I was held back in my education was a mixture of horrible teachers and teachers whose teaching styles didn't match my own learning style. Because private school wasn't an option, I was stuck and did my best to further my own understanding where I could.
With AI assisted learning, students would have the tools to help overcome such situations when self-teaching when they are stuck in the situation I was in. Teachers could use AI as support to reach students with different learning styles more effectively. While also increasing the ability of teachers to teach effectively, AI could also be used to track learning styles of students and aid in pairing them with more compatible teachers as well.
Taking it a step further, all this would happen along with lessening the, often insane work burden on teachers. I expect, along with reforms, it would make it much easier and less expensive private schools that would put parents in the driver seat as to what and how their children are being taught.
Is there a potential for abuse of AI in education? Yes. But far more can be gained by using it wisely and, in my opinion, it's the most potent tool for undoing the indoctrination and dumbing down of the population that has been going on for generations.