Does the rise of AI spell the end of education?

In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates tells a story about the Egyptian god Thoth, whose inventions include writing. Socrates relates how Theban king Thamus warned the god that his discovery would "create forgetfulness in the learners' souls". "They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing," Socrates recounts, in a translation by Oxford scholar Benjamin Jowett. "They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." The passage could be taken as evidence of Phillip Dawson's assertion that "panics" about new technologies and their impacts on learning date back two-and-a-half millennia. Sometimes there is good reason for concern, according to Dawson, associate director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University.