We live in a world where artificial intelligence is writing code, driving cars, and probably making better decisions than most of the world’s human population. Tech companies in Silicon Valley are using AI to handle 50% of their coding jobs, but students are not allowed to use AI to help with exams.
You literally can’t get a job these days if you don’t use AI to help with your work. We are headed into a future where Neuralink chips implanted in humans will accelerate human brain processing, and humanoids like Tesla Optimus will integrate into our world doing useful jobs.
So why can’t students use AI to help with their exams? Why is human memorisation more valued than machine memorisation?
Society’s got a love-hate thing with AI: we worship it when it’s boosting stock prices but clutch our pearls when it’s within reach of a kid. The classroom’s moral panic screams “cheating!” while the tech industry calls it “innovation.”
The root of this is our bizarre obsession with human memorisation as some noble art form. Machine memorisation, though? It’s considered dangerous.
We’re hobbling kids in a race they’re destined to run alongside machines. In a future where Neuralink could turn your skull into a supercomputer and Optimus might be the President of the United States, human memorisation isn’t a virtue—it’s a handicap. Machine memorisation isn’t cheating—it’s the future.
The more we look for ways to create human-machine symbiosis, the better the world we create, and the more we reduce the risk of failing our children.