Global Reading Scores Plunge in 2025 PISA Results

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Above: Release of the Results of the 2025 PISA Study in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 8. Image credit: Christian Marquardt/NurPhoto/Getty Images

The Spin

Screens and AI chatbots wrecked reading by turning 15-year-olds into hasty, inaccurate scanners instead of careful thinkers. Dumping AI writing tools into homework destroys the ability to evaluate evidence and hold attention through complex texts. This literacy collapse will drag down future workers and entire economies unless classrooms put effort and deep reading back ahead of gadgets.

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Arnaud Bertrand on X The Wall Street Journal

Teacher shortages and starved public budgets hollowed out classrooms and sent reading off a cliff. Peddling AI as a classroom savior just lets kids farm out thinking to a bot while trained teachers stayare missing from classrooms. Well-trained teachers in small classes with real support will make literacy climb again.

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Metaculus Prediction

There's a 50% chance that the first major tech company will offer a university course taught primarily by AI after January 2031, according to the Metaculus prediction community.