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Since its inception some 60 years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an arcane academic field into a powerful driver of social transformation. Like the invention of electricity, AI is the quintessential “dual-use” technology with enormous potential for reshaping the nature of education. Indeed, AI sits at the center of a constellation of general-use technologies including robotics, machine learning (ML), genomics and quantum computing. What is the role of learning and work in this new era? As a recent U.S. government report makes clear, AI is the most powerful tool in generations (National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, 2021). With a capacity to think, act, and even learn like human beings, AI has begun catalyzing deep structural changes in the global economy. In fact, AI is accelerating a period of transition between two epochs: an industrial era characterized by predictable factory labor and a new computational era characterized by augmented human intelligence. "