I like the clear sustained argument and your use of citation 👍👍

I’ll share some of my thoughts on a couple of the points you raise …

I’m wondering if we are moving quite quickly towards the time when you might have to amend the argument about drivers’ jobs. I’ve seen a few driverless delivery trucks on the road and presumably as soon as those become cheaper, more reliable or more efficient than a human driver, the number of driver jobs will decline rapidly. Whether the tech replaces those jobs would then really depend on whether human drivers are prepared to work for less money than it would cost to have AI drive – a rather depressing state of affairs but might make a great seminar discussion on AI ethics 🚕

It’s nice to see you are positive about the future of teachers’ jobs, but I feel we’re heading for a pretty big change. As you say, the academic side (the actual teaching part) can already be replaced by AI (actually, it could’ve been replaced by internet search engines so to some extent this change is already underway) so the remaining work for teachers to do in the near future isn’t teaching at all but more like life skills coaching focusing on the emotional development of students. I envisage a time when my job is to create a course schedule and reading list, turn the students over to AI to learn stuff, and then to come into class wielding the DSA instrument to check everybody has done their learning. Actually, I’d like that because I’d have to do the same study as the students to make sure I keep up and remain skilled enough to assess what AI is teaching. Teachers would really be role-modelling learning! I reckon this would really accelerate the pace of learning and increase the rate of expansion of human knowledge. There is a caveat though: The students will need the self-discipline or intrinsic motivation and necessary study skills to benefit. Thus, we would likely see the gulf between those who have the skills and those who don’t become even wider. The concept of ‘no student left behind’ will be broken.

Perhaps we won’t have to worry about it too much. As fatalErr0r has pointed out, biohacking tech is advancing. Maybe school in the future will be a simple process of having an AI enhanced chip directly connected to the web implanted in the young student’s brain. We teachers will surely be redundant then  🙄