Priya Lakhani

It can force you to generate an answer rather than just reveal the answer.

And it can provide amazing structured feedback against expertly designed rubrics from teachers.

So AI well-designed can be phenomenal in education, and we've seen it work.

Now, a lot of people come to me, students and adults, and they say, but why bother?

Because we've got GPS, right?

We have AI, we can Google the answer to absolutely anything, so we don't need to do this anymore.

That's not true.

If you think about AI, AI is our history predicting our future.

It is brilliant at spotting patterns in data.

It has been amazing as a partner in remarkable breakthroughs like drug discovery and protein folding, new materials and crystals.

But the thing is, none of that happens with AI in isolation.

We humans, we frame the questions, we set the goals, we chose the datasets, we decide which discoveries matter.

Our knowledge is not just trivia.

It is the raw material of thinking and discovery.

AI is not there to replace our expertise, it's there to allow our expertise to expand.

And if you think about power to flight,

penicillin, electricity, AI itself.

Humans learned.

They went through that productive struggle, right?

They built domain expertise, and from that, they took a leap in their imagination, and they created innovations.