There was a time I would've thought that having a robot buddy who would help me with homework or whatever would have been just the coolest darn thing ever.
Now #KhanAcademy is reaching out to me with promotional emails for something called "Khanmigo", an #AI educational companion, and none of that magic or excitement is there that I might've had years and years ago as a kid.
Now it just feels like I'm being hit on by an incel. It feels that creepy. :(
Contrary to what “Time” says, education is the first and foremost method of preventing not only anti-vaccine movement but also other pseudo-scientific and sectarian movements, such as anti-GMO, anti-nuclear, anti-5G etc. But this required country-wide improvement of access to education on all levels, which is incompatible with the US model of education being paid, premium service for people who can afford it.
I would suggest it also helps reduce climate change sustainably:
If we define climate change as human-induced changes, then educating women, and promoting first-world standards of family planning, contributes to reducing the rate of increase of the human population.
It's for everyone to do their own root-cause analysis of course, but I'm always gobsmacked that no one lobbies for this.