Despite having all the resources in the world to offer their offspring a high-quality education, a cohort of wealthy entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are choosing to educate them using AI instead.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, a private school network called Alpha School is luring in rich parents across the country, offering them an eyebrow-raising education that includes hours of AI-based tutoring — for a searing $75,000 a year.
It also has a decidedly political tilt. The Trump administration has heavily promoted the private school network, which “rejects DEI” and avoids discussions of “hot-button social issues.”
The use of AI in education has sparked a major national debate over the future of learning and the role of human instructors amid a major teacher shortage crisis and collapsing education funding, with experts warning that the tech falls well short of a conventionally proven curriculum.
