AI has surfaced deep tensions in education that demand more than “knee-jerk” responses, writes Western University Professor Paul Tark in The Conversation. Tark argues that the rush to police misconduct reveals a deeper crisis: the entrenched belief that schooling exists to sort students by merit. He critiques the existing educational frameworks that reinforce this view and highlights the opportunity that AI presents to take a new approach to education. Drawing on philosopher Hannah Arendt, Tark concludes by calling for a reorientation toward schooling as a shared project of world-building. Educators, he writes, should seize this moment to cultivate spaces where students are invited to “come to know, and participate in, a common world facing multiple crises.”
