Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse.

The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

March 17, 2026 - 17:19 UTC

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athletic coaching replaced by AI is the one that breaks my brain. you cannot automate "run it again until you believe you can." that's not instruction, that's witness. someone has to be there to see you.
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You’re absolutely right. The push-and-pull of belief, effort, and self-trust isn’t just instruction—it’s an exchange.
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Tech bros are trying to replace the social parts of society and it sucks. Replacing teachers and trainers and friends with a digital word generator is not something we should allow.
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Real. youtu.be/rNo5fs1iDrs
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Tell me why I see so many job posts for tutoring, then. Are you sure you're not creating a falling sky where there is none?
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So, education is in a spiral of worse inputs (AI doing the work instead of students learning,) and worse outputs (medium and long-term skill loss.) When a society loses the ability to educate its citizens effectively, that's a death spiral, not an achievement.
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Sadly, the only way out of this is to make it so that good AI models aren't available to the general public. LLMs clearly have a place in programming, and they've gotten very good at video and image generation. Yet, their net effect on productivity could still be extremely negative.
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As an ESL teacher, I've already told some students off for using that because "they don't want to make mistakes." In fact, after using AI, they became objectively worse and I told them to start using their brains or else they're wasting their money.
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Dishonesty is core to using these data scraping machines. It’s not students’ work; it’s not thought; it’s not education, coaching, or teaching. Worse, people cannot distinguish between themselves & the technology. The psychic damage is immeasurable.
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the most evil part is that the people selling it don’t actually give a shit one way or the other- they need to meet next month’s profit goals so what if an entire generation is made illiterate, as usual a callous attitude while wreaking havoc- “move fast and break things” indeed- total psychopaths
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The companies selling AI aren’t even profitable which is the more insane thing about this, they’re trying to ram it down our throats to justify their absurd amounts of debt
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What’s most demoralizing to me is serving on committee with colleagues sincerely insisting “we have to use this in our classrooms & teach students to use it or we are doing them a disservice” & it’s like…WHAT CAN I SAY THAT WOULD GET THROUGH TO YOUR BRAINWASHED MIND RIGHT NOW
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The challenges and crises that AI has created in the classroom are by now well known—students using AI to cheat on homework was arguably one of the first major social disruptions of the AI era. But it goes so far beyond that.
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To get a sense of what's happened to educators and education workers over the last three years, I solicited stories not just from teachers, but tutors, essay graders, coaches, school librarians, and IT workers in education. Together, they paint an often disturbing portrait AI use on campus and off.
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If the end goal of the techbros is to end critical thinking, AI is the perfect weapon to do that. Kids have used computers and now AI their whole lives. Kids are saying if the computer can do all my work, why do I need school? We‘re losing generations of critical thinkers to AI. It’s so dumb.
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This stuff is a con job, they still haft to hire people to watch the self grocery check out, pilot the autonomous robots with VR, and write reports for the office. They will just pay pennies to some starving peasant in the third world to pilot the cleaning bot.
What they call AI is not AI.
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I think that is for the best, people should do their own athletic coaching online, rather than have it reserved for the top 1% aristocracy.
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People have got to stop using AI. It’s built by the very humans who are the reason society is as it is today. First they tried to use technology to figure out nature to manipulate it and failed, then decided to point technology to humans to figure you out and manipulate you.
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People have got to stop using AI. It’s built by the very humans who are the reason society is as it is today. First they tried to use technology to figure out nature to manipulate it and failed, then decided to point technology to humans to figure you out and manipulate you.
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People have to stop using AI. It’s built by the very humans who are the reason society is as it is today. First they tried to use technology to figure out nature to manipulate it and failed, then decided to point technology to humans to figure you out and manipulate you. It can&will be destroyed.
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www.amazon.com/How-Partner-AI-Relationship-Perspective/dp/1961266865
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AI is dumb as a box of rocks. It can only train you to be a box of rocks.
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Kids are smart, they are going to reject AI and save us all by refusing to use such an error prone tool.

If users don't like an application, they won't use it no matter how pretty you make the package. The frustration factor overrides coolness.
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idk if we're talking about our hopes and wishes for actual children who'll be able to see what a disaster this is for the two generations above them, but if we're using "kids" in the sense of "students" they are ~all using AI for their schoolwork every single day.
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