EDUCATION CRISIS IN THE AGE OF AI

The emergence and acceleration of artificial intelligence does not only transform the labor market or the modes of knowledge production. It also places human education before an existential crisis. The educational goals that have been taken for granted for centuries learning to pass exams and learning to get a job are simultaneously losing their effectiveness in a world where machines learn faster, remember better, and optimize more efficiently than humans. This monograph argues that the education crisis in the age of AI is not primarily a technical crisis of curricula or teaching methods. It is a crisis of the very purpose of educating human beings. When examinations no longer measure life competence and professional skills are rapidly automated, education is forced to confront a more fundamental question: who are human beings being educated to become? Through an analysis of the cognitive, social, and ethical transformations brought about by AI, the book proposes a shift in the axis of education: from training for competition and optimization to educating in order to preserve and develop humanity. “Learning to preserve our humanity” is not understood as a vague moral slogan. It is defined as cultivating core capacities that enable humans to keep a stable value axis, maintain reflexivity, and uphold long-term responsibility within an environment of extreme optimization. The book aims to open a new conceptual framework for education in the AI era: education as the last line of defense for humanity.