AI tutors and grading assistants can personalize learning or hollow it out. This episode explores the fork in the road: augmentation that frees teachers for mentorship, or automation that reduces education to standardized modules. Equity concerns loom—will wealthy schools enrich human teaching with AI while poorer districts replace it? Beyond efficiency, the question is cultural: do we define education as delivering content, or as shaping citizens? AI magnifies whichever answer we choose.

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