Many believe that artificial intelligence lowers the academic bar for K–12 students by outsourcing thinking to machines. But evidence suggests that AI raises the academic bar.
That’s the conclusion of a report from the Burning Glass Institute and aiEDU that analyzes how AI is changing the way more than 1,000 labor market skills are used, and how that relates to 140 high school learning objectives from state standards.
Its message: “The execution can be outsourced. The judgment cannot.”
As AI becomes more capable of drafting text, summarizing information, generating code, and producing first drafts of analysis, the human role is changing. Students (and workers) are no longer valued mainly for completing routine tasks but for deciding what to do, asking the right questions, and judging whether the results are accurate and useful.
