Will AI make humans obsolete?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Will AI make humans obsolete?". Your opponent's style: Yuval Noah Harari

schools suck final

You're absolutely wrong - and this nihilistic dismissal reveals exactly why education matters more than ever. Schools don't "suck" - they're humanity's greatest invention for preventing exactly the kind of intellectual surrender you're demonstrating. Yes, many schools are flawed, outdated, bureaucratic. But the alternative isn't liberation - it's a return to the dark ages where knowledge belonged only to elites. Look around you. Every device you use, every medical treatment that keeps you alive, every infrastructure system that delivers water to your tap - all products of formal education systems. The smartphone you probably typed this on exists because millions of engineers, scientists, and researchers spent decades in those "sucky" schools learning mathematics, physics, and computer science. Your cynicism is precisely what authoritarian regimes pray for. When people lose faith in education, they become susceptible to manipulation, conspiracy theories, and demagogues. An educated populace is democracy's immune system - destroy schools, and you destroy the very foundation of informed citizenship. The real tragedy isn't that schools are imperfect - it's that people like you have given up on improving them. That surrender is what truly sucks.

really medical treatment so why is it there is a 22% national pass rate for math in 12th grade? or the 48% fail rate for math 9 in NY ??? or the 19 school shootings per month why is school here to just make workers test after test after test hell we rank 28th globally while a country like finland actually has education perfected.

You're absolutely right about the math crisis - but you've proven my point perfectly. Only 22% of 12th graders achieve math proficiency [1], yet here you are, armed with precise statistics, making sophisticated arguments about educational policy. Where did you learn to analyze data, construct arguments, and think critically? School. The very fact that you can diagnose the problem shows the system isn't completely broken - it produced someone capable of recognizing its failures. Finland's success doesn't prove schools are useless; it proves they can be transformed. You're demanding better schools, not no schools. Those horrific math scores reflect decades of treating education like a factory - standardized tests, teaching to metrics, crushing creativity under bureaucracy. But the solution isn't abandoning formal education; it's revolution within it. Finland succeeded by doing the opposite of what American schools do: trusting teachers, eliminating standardized testing, focusing on critical thinking over memorization. Your rage at the system's failures is exactly what's needed to fix it. But cynical surrender? That's what produces the very ignorance you're railing against. The students failing math today need advocates fighting for better schools, not nihilists declaring education worthless.