Will there be schools in the post-AI era?
Will there be a meaning in maintaining this industry of learning?
And it is an industry.
Fortunately or unfortunately.
Fortunately, because it made it seen for what it is.
And unfortunately, because no learning, no real learning, can take place in the schools that we know today.
An interesting way to look at the question of learning, and yes or no the meaning of schools, place of learning in the post-AI era, is that libraries as the exclusive source of knowledge moved aside, and the internet and the online archive made search accessible to anyone online.
So to access knowledge, to search, find, access knowledge, was the capacity that the internet brought in terms of learning.
And now, in the depth, the midst of the revolution of AI, similar thing happened in regard to accessing answers.
You could find information before AI, but it was up to you to collect, synthesize, analyze, and provide, propose the answer based on that knowledge.
AI took over and soon enough will bring to extinction the need to answer anything from the known.
So first came the find machine.
Now came the answer machine.
And there is no need to be cynical about it.
AI can access and synthesize and answer questions from the known way better than anyone can today, in terms of the vastness and the capacity to iterate in depth, quickly, in a speed of thought and beyond, as we know it.
Not only that, but you may say what about answering questions that were not asked, questions that has to do with new ways to do something, innovation, etc.
It is very clear, and you can see, to the extent that this answering is based on knowledge, AI will be able to propose answers far better, far faster, far wider than any human being can.
So allow yourself to see a life, a reality, where all knowledge known to men is accessed by an absolute, perfect answering machine.
Honestly, I don't know why one need to imagine, it's the reality today, but let's give it another space to improve, to excel, give it two years, three years.
The question that must be asked is what is there left to learn?
Memorizing knowledge has no meaning in this stage.
Answering question based on knowledge has no meaning.
AI will do it far better.
What is left?
Is it possible that the way to approach this question, and the relation of that question to the topic we started with, which is what is the future of learning and will there be schools in the post-AI era, has to do with what cannot be known.
Not what we don't know today but we will know tomorrow.
Not what we don't know but the AI will know and tell us.
But with the quality of that which cannot be known.
You can call it the naked question.
The question that is naked from knowledge.
The pure questioning.
That capacity, to the extent it's real, has a ground of not knowing.
Otherwise, it's a fake questioning.
Real question is that which come to be from the ground, from the fountain, from the foundation of absolute not knowing.
And that may be the art of questioning truly, and that may be the one thing that will be associated with real learning.
But before you celebrate or condemn the answer, watch out from knowing it.
For even if it's real, what good does it bring to your life if you know it?
A question that can be known, that can be answered, is not a question.
It's a knowledge accumulation in process.
So what are you left with?
Learn to question beyond knowledge without an attempt to answer, way beyond the potential answer.
Not for a reason.
Not by exercising knowledge, experience, skill.
But by nature.
Reveal the ancient capacity.
That which is before time.
The timeless capacity to meet a question from the ground of not knowing.
The school to that is where you are now.
