Posted by thoughtpeddler 11 hours ago
We have to really rethink how and what we teach, and how we evaluate. Scoring (non-handwritten) homework is pointless, even contra-productive (because it incentivizes cheating, even for the students who don't want to, just to not be outscored by the cheaters). Hand-written homework means the students at least have to have read the work once...
And soon, with AI glasses, even in-classroom tests will be difficult.
> “The two AI superpowers are going to start talking. We’re going to set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure nonstate actors don’t get a hold of these models,” Bessent told Joe Kernen on Thursday, on the sidelines of President Donald Trump’s two-day meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/us-china-ai-rules-bessent-us...
OpenAI is already talking openly about gated access to their models (see this OpenAI podcast episode for example: https://openai.com/podcast/#oai-podcast-episode-16)
Separately there's also a very active effort to stop open weight releases.
It's dangerous to those who think access to frontier intelligence is important.
But, I think, with every revolution, hierarchies have only historically fallen only for the former serfs to rise.
The industrial revolution, the renaissance -> all were marked by an massive shift in the socioeconomic status and the rise of the middle class.
I think AGI, when it happens, will only raise equality. I may be wrong.
So, sure, AGI might raise equality - but that's only if we fight for it.
For example, with the $40/month Kimi Code subscription the limits are so generous that you can use it every day all the time for everything (basically just have an agent constantly running doing something) and never run out of tokens/hit the limits.
- people living in places with higher cost of living and corresponding salaries
- people whose employers are paying for it
- people who aren't actually using it but are being paid to hype it up online
- bots
OpenAI etc need to make crazy revenue to get their investment math to work. Perhaps you can sell some tokens to privileged partners at a premium rate but I think they’ll need global scale ultimately
I would imagine not single everyone on HN have enough disposable income that allow us to subscribe Claude Max or other similar max plan of other models without thinking.
Some people mentioned open weight model, but there are two hurdles. One the current economic mean securing the best hardware is already stupidly expensive compare to a year or two ago. And the open weight model lack the magic that Claude/Gemini/OpenAI put in the proprietary one, meaning one will have to create their own agent that is clever enough to search the internet when it knows its training data is stale.
You don't need the Max plan with other models if you're not going completely crazy. Other providers have much more generous limits than Anthropic.