GIGO

Things will get worse as a significant percentage of students secretly use AI to do homework. There has always been a divide between those who care about education for its own sake and those who only care about grades, but AI will worsen this divide, leaving fewer people with the… https://t.co/mdQ9t4B8F2

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) July 23, 2026

Elmo says AI will soon be smarter than us. 

AI that is smarter than Elmo is not that high a hurdle. It’s more like a speed bump. A very low speed bump.

Unless and until AI becomes self-aware, it will never be intelligent. AI that doesn’t “know” that legal cases have to exist in order to be in a legal brief (and which doesn’t understand the difference between “existence” as a matter of being, and “existence” as already extant in the world, like a court case opinion), and why that matters (it is quite a bit beyond “acceptable” v. “unacceptable”), cannot be said to be intelligent. So I’m not being flippant to say Elmo is not intelligent. He doesn’t understand what intelligence is; but still imagines he possesses it.

AI has a long way to go to be of more than limited use.

What it won’t do is worsen the educational divide. That’s as bad as it ever gets.