The most telling sentence in Daniel Susskind’s article (I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI, 6 September) is “human tutors are too expensive to provide to everyone”. Too expensive in relation to what? If instead of allowing tech lords to amass untold wealth we provided tutors for all, this would avert anxiety about job losses and provide the kind of quality that the screen-averse wealthy currently expect only their kids to have.
The students protesting against AI are not just concerned about their graduate outcomes, but rather understand that its imposition serves only to enrich the few and worsen the labour conditions of the many. A good future for our children will not come from education technology scammers. They do not need more datacentres and environmentally catastrophic, resource-intensive automation.
