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If AI Can Solve Almost Everything, What Should We Teach Our Children? Education is part of a natural human process. We discover problems, look for solutions, bring those solutions into the real world, face the consequences, and learn from the results. New questions emerge, and the cycle continues. Yet most of modern education concentrates on just one part of this process: solving problems. We teach knowledge and skills, assign tasks, and measure how well students complete them. The underlying assumption is that the better you are at solving problems, the more value you can create. AI is changing that assumption. When increasingly powerful problem-solving capabilities become available to everyone, perhaps education should spend much more time on the two ends of the process: deciding what is worth pursuing and taking responsibility for what happens in reality. AI can already help us ask questions, compare possibilities, and make decisions. But intelligence alone cannot determine what matters to a particular human being. We live in vulnerable bodies, with limited time and lives that cannot be restarted. Every decision costs us other possibilities. That scarcity is what makes our choices personal. The same applies to reality. AI can simulate a situation and predict its outcome, but a simulation is not the same as living with the consequences. In the real world, our decisions affect other people, consume time and resources, and sometimes create irreversible results. We cannot simply reset and try again without cost. This is what I mean by Human Agency: I choose. I take responsibility. Therefore, I am. Consider Elon Musk. He doesn’t personally possess all the knowledge required to build rockets, electric vehicles, or AI systems. His ability to pursue such ambitious projects comes in large part from the whole loop: making consequential decisions, accepting responsibility, and bringing together external intelligence whose expertise makes execution possible. He is an example of what I would call a super individual: one person able to mobilize capabilities far beyond their own knowledge. AI may not make everyone another Elon Musk, but it could make it possible for many more people to attempt things that once required someone like him. That possibility changes the meaning of motivation. Why should a young person spend years learning? Not simply to outperform others at tasks AI may soon do better, but because they may now have the ability to pursue ideas and make changes that previous generations could only dream of.