AI may change education less by replacing learning than by forcing us to ask what is actually worth learning.

Comment “Learning” and we’ll send you an article that explores this further. A chatbot can now walk a student through problems that once required a teacher, a manual, or hours of trial and error. But easier access to answers also raises harder questions. Which skills should students master without assistance? When does struggle build understanding? Which tasks are valuable precisely because they take time? And when is using AI simply another form of specialization, like using a calculator instead of doing every calculation by hand? If students can outsource more routine work, schools should spend less energy policing every shortcut and more energy identifying the knowledge, judgment, curiosity, and perseverance that remain worth cultivating.