>It's perhaps to be expected, as these education people are usually non-technical.

I don't think that's totally correct. I think it's because AI has come at everyone, equally, all at once. Educational academics didn't have years to study this because it was released on our kids at the same time.

I definitely see what you're saying, but:

> has come at everyone, equally, all at once

is not true. It's obvious that certain people and certain fields are technological laggards or technological early adopters.

Other computing and IT technologies also provided a good training ground for this stuff. LLMs have really interesting new properties, but all have familiar properties and decade+ old methods of distribution.

This stuff is difficult, sure. But we have long set a low bar for education management and the results—declining literacy and math in countries which have become stupidly wealthy—speak for themselves.