Reshaping education's core meaning

Tesla and xAI founder Elon Musk has added a worrying dimension to the growth of artificial intelligence by claiming recently that AI models have already run out of human-created data, and turned to AI-generated information to teach themselves. In other words, AI has mastered all human knowledge and started to teach itself, making human involvement in knowledge generation and dissemination unnecessary.

This conjures the vision of a "mirror maze", where the infinite reflections of possibilities hide the challenges, including the weakening of education value and marginalization of the human role.

As AI, as Musk says, gradually takes over the function of knowledge transfer, the essence of education will undergo a change, necessitating the development of new educational values and creating new roles for humans. Education in operations research thinking, as a form of liberal arts, should be used as the "wisdom key" to unravel this maze, helping humans to reshape the core meaning of education and guide society toward a new future of coexistence and mutual prosperity with AI.