2026.08.13 12:45

The $1.5 trillion global education industry just got its business model summarized, and buried, in one sentence by Sam Altman His exact words: "My kids will never be smarter than AI." He didn't say it as a warning. He said his children will grow up more capable than his generation because intelligence far beyond their own will always be available. Every school on earth still measures a student by how much they can hold in their head. Testing. Grading. Ranking. All of it downstream of a scarcity that no longer exists. The smartest human in any given room is now the AI in someone's pocket. The scarce skills, in the world Altman is describing, are the ones that don't scale with model size. Judgment. Curiosity. Knowing what to ask. Recognizing when the answer you got is wrong. Deciding what's worth doing at all. Not one of those is on the SAT. Not one of them is graded in the average classroom. The question every parent and teacher should sit with: what do you teach when being the smartest in the room is no longer possible?

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Hyro@0x_Hyro

2026.08.11 14:15

Sam Altman just drew the entire scaling curve for AI compute in one paragraph. VCs pay analysts six figures to build charts less clear than this Six and a half years ago, the world's top token user was one OpenAI employee running 100,000 tokens a month. The worldwide per-capita average was zero. Nobody outside a lab had ever touched an LLM. Today the worldwide per-capita average is 100,000 tokens a month. The leader at OpenAI runs hundreds of billions. That's a million-fold jump at the top and a hundred-thousand-fold jump for everyone else. In 6.5 years. Altman's forecast for the next 6.5: the average person hits 500 billion tokens a month, the token leader lands somewhere in the quadrillions. "That will just become the expectation." The forecasts every enterprise IT team is using right now assume flat or 10x growth. Altman is publicly telling them to plan for a million times. Screenshot this before your CTO's next AI budget review. The math on his slides won't match the math Altman just put on stage.

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