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Why Education Should Lead the Intelligence Revolution (confidential)
AI is rapidly making traditional education models obsolete while threatening students' potential for self-determination. We're developing new approaches that harness AI to empower human creativity and discovery in the AI era through several initiatives: researching education's historical failures to enhance technical, cultural, and moral relevance; creating institutional models for flexible and locally-relevant education; fostering public engagement; and developing curricular frameworks. At the heart of this effort is The Divinity School, an MA-level program that serves as a living case study—demonstrating how metacognitive perspective-taking is key to embedding AI education into higher learning. Beyond this, we are creating scalable models for all educational levels to ensure the next generation develops the cognitive tools necessary to navigate an AI-shaped world. Through direct collaboration with municipalities on education design and strategy, we can transform local and national education systems. Our movement goes beyond critique to actively shape education's future through policy innovation, public discourse, and real-world implementation. This brief describes our initiatives.
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CONTENTS
The Rise of the Technological Republic
The Transformation of Education and Values
The Rise of Alternative Education
Coalition for Education in the Age of Agency
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Throughout time leaders have forwarded the course of history. However, most remained trapped within their era's dominant narrative. In recent decades, when television and later the internet emerged, educational leaders abdicated their obligation to generations of students to the whims of the market and the egregious demands of the technological growth obligation. The results were tragic: intellectual stagnation, moral irrelevance, suppressed curiosity, and diminished creative experimentation. Now, with the rise of AI, if educational leaders merely fall in line once again, an even greater tragedy looms: the surrender of human identity and agency to machines. The technology itself isn't our doom—that hinges on how educators respond. We must teach young people to treat AI as a tool, maintaining intellectual distance and metacognitive awareness so it never becomes a super-subject to the self, but remains an instrument to be wielded according to each individual's authentic desires and choices. To do that we have to know how we got here. We will write a Security Brief to expose how the education system fundamentally failed in its mission during critical technological shifts - remaining passive while new communications technologies transformed Western values, capitulating as neoliberal bureaucracy strangled authentic learning, and standing idle while an aging ruling class, comfortable with institutional inertia, allowed government and Wall Street excesses to erode both public trust and the middle class.
Our purpose is twofold:
Educators need to become leaders again— leaders who change the course of history by transcending the given reality of their times; leaders with penetrating vision who hold themselves to a higher purpose; leaders who ground the new generations in moral dignity. We must reclaim the sacred trust that society bestows on those who are responsible for the future of us all.
We are living in a moment of profound historical significance. The legacy of Western culture is being renewed, and at the same time, the geo-political landscape that will shape its future is being reconfigured. The national framework and its political architecture are being upgraded to secure technological dominance and uncontested power in the conflict arenas of the near future. For over a decade, the old guard of late-stage neoliberal capitalism was bending under its own bureaucratic weight, while an aging and increasingly clueless ruling class, comfortable with institutional inertia, enabled government and wall street excesses to pilfer both the public trust and destroy the middle class.
Economic Pain and Stolen Futures
While the ruling class and social elites spoke endlessly about "leveling the playing field," a new generation saw these policies as an assault on human agency. These revolutionaries, prioritizing real-world outcomes over ideology and academic rhetoric, highlighted how social inequality was actually increasing at unprecedented rates despite progressive programs.
As people felt economic pain, the government responded by injecting liquidity through carefully marketed stimulus programs. Though presented as relief for struggling individuals and small businesses, these programs merely masked deeper structural problems. The direct payments and incentives created an illusion of support while trapping recipients in long-term dependencies. Meanwhile, a select few in the financial markets reaped enormous gains. Young entrepreneurs with real-world business experience saw the truth: rather than revitalizing the economy, capital was being funneled upward into an increasingly centralized financial system.
This strategy followed a pattern as old as empire: when economic systems become unsustainable, those in power create short-term solutions that buy time while shifting long-term liabilities onto the public. Historically, nations dealt with runaway debt through expansion—securing new resources, exploiting weaker economies, or waging war to reset financial obligations. In the digital era, these tactics have evolved into algorithmic economic interventions, debt-financed stimulus, and privatization of public assets—mechanisms that keep capital flowing through elite networks while ensuring future generations remain financially subservient.
Yet public discourse remained trapped in superficial narratives, framing economic distress as merely a problem of insufficient redistribution rather than fundamental institutional failure. Those who penetrated this façade recognized that the ruling class wasn't simply mismanaging the economy—they were systematically stealing their future.