Ex-Microsoft Exec Declares Classroom is 15th Century, Calls AI the New Tutor Overlord
KEY POINTS
- •Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s former chief research strategist retiring in 2014, urges revamping education for an AI world.
- •He argues for blending liberal arts with STEM to equip students with social and technical fluency in machine partnerships.
- •Mundie highlights AI tutoring experiments like Khan Academy’s Khanmigo pushing personalized learning beyond rigid classrooms.
Craig Mundie, the ex-Microsoft AI brain from the glory years ending in 2014, insists that today’s education system looks like it was designed at a medieval printing press fan club meeting. This January 2026 eyebrow-raiser warns kids need to vibe with both STEM and Socratic chit-chat, or in his words, 'a liberal education in technology.' He salutes Khan Academy’s AI, Khanmigo, a tutor whisperer from California that nudges kids to be less ‘gimme answers’ and more ‘let’s question everything.’ Meanwhile, he’s calling out schools that spent 2023 trying to ban AI tools outright only to quit like a bad Twitch streamer. Spoiler: AI teaching isn’t a fad, it’s the future, and Mundie is mad bullish that classrooms should crumble faster than a stale cracker.
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When your school still acts like AI is a vaping fad from 2019 but students treat it like their homework-obsessed Tinder date, you know the system’s toast.
AI isn’t just replacing teachers, it’s revealing how we all crammed for tests from medieval manuals while humming Luddites’ lullabies.
Colleges banning AI in 2023 was like flipping off the internet and hoping your flip phone calls back—welcome to 2026, try harder.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/4/2026 | Author: Reem Makhoul,Jessica Orwig
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