Well, parents, the CEO of OpenAI has spoken! If your kid will “never” be smarter than AI, that means AI will always be smarter than your kid — always.

Altman’s AI evangelism makes a lot of sense, especially considering that OpenAI is partnering with the nation’s 2nd largest teacher’s union to train teachers on AI integration in classrooms.

The AFT’s far-Left president, Randi Weingarten, said this about promoting AI training for teachers provided by OpenAI:

“[W]e knew it would fundamentally change our world. The question was whether we would be chasing it or whether we would try to harness it?”

If you couple the union president’s statement with the AI CEO’s statement, the takeaway is that AI will be so hyper intelligent that it will control kids in the future, and that somehow teachers can be trained to control the very same AI that will control these kids.

Who knew that dystopianism and misanthropy would be front and center in the future of education? You could always ask someone pushing this AI madness on kids to make it make sense, but they’d probably just outsource your question to ChatGPT anyway.

AI Hits Home

On a related note, earlier this year Utah lawmakers passed a very bad bill, Ariel Defay’s HB 168, Artificial Intelligence in Education, which set up a task force to study and recommend policies and strategies on how to implement, maximize, and promote AI in public education.

The bill’s various provisions clearly indicate the presumption that AI in classrooms is inevitable, its ascendancy is a foregone conclusion, and as long as we keep up the appearance of treating this squatter as a guest, parents need not panic — sleep easy, guys, the Task Force is on it! 

When people say they’ll never trust AI, maybe it’s because they feel an instinctive and inspired lack of trust in its architects and apologists, too?

Utah is not alone in its rush to center education on AI technologies. But the Beehive State is particularly thirsty to create AI infrastructure around education in a way that serves as a forerunner for other states looking for direction in this sector.

Fake is Forever

Last year a post on Facebook that received well over 16,000 likes and a ton of shares. The post congratulated a married couple for 76 years of marriage. Two images followed: one of the couple at presumably the beginning of their marriage, and then one seeming to be taken 7 decades later. The post had hundreds of comments congratulating this couple on their marital milestone. Too bad the whole thing was as fake as a plant-based burger! A closer look at the two pictures revealed missing fingers and other uncanny valley inconsistencies that gave this tender moment away as AI.

When close to 20,000 adults can get duped by less-than-intelligent AI, allowing a counterfeit to become reality, can you imagine what’s in store for our nations 50 million students when AI has only counterfeits to counterfeit?

The caption for the faked marriage photos reads:

“When something is real, it’s forever.”

Just wait til people discover how “forever” fake can be, too.