Caixin daily highlights global fight over AI’s role in education

AI’s advance into classrooms is one of the clearest signals that we’re leaving the pilot phase of deployment and moving into something more structural. The Caixin piece captures how education leaders now frame AI not as a marginal tool, but as the central question in how we transmit knowledge and values to the next generation. When deans in Doha talk about negotiating "the soul of education" around AI, they’re really asking where human judgment and relationship must remain non-automated, even as models become capable tutors and counselors.

For the race to AGI, this matters less as a technical milestone and more as an adoption threshold. Once AI becomes normal in schooling—where risk tolerance is low and long-term impacts are high—it will entrench expectations that every cognitively mediated activity can be optimized with a model. That can accelerate demand for increasingly general systems, from multimodal tutors that track a child’s development over years to agents that orchestrate entire school workflows. At the same time, backlash from educators could slow or redirect deployment if systems are seen as hollowing out critical thinking rather than augmenting it.