AI is not going to augment human capability in Australian primary schools. It is going to replace large parts of it, the same way every general-purpose technology before it has done. New technology doesn’t tend to augment traditions. It reforms and replaces. The car did not enhance walking. The pocket calculator did not enhance arithmetic. Email did not enhance the handwritten letter. Pretending otherwise is the central error of every Australian education policy document writ

There is a lot of fear around AI at the moment, and it is totally understandable. The Castlereagh Statement is an important first step, and the next is facing the fear of the unknown head on. I am trying to open up the conversation on another front. One underrated fact about Alpha School in America is that students love learning with a teacher who knows them, shows endless patience, and most importantly does not judge them. They get individual tutoring and a learning relation