What Nathan Lambert thinks about education

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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1. 12 Aug 2026

   Our readingThe best textbooks will continue to be predominantly written by human hand rather than AI for at least the next several years.

   Their wordsSo, in 2-5 years I still expect the best textbooks to be heavily crafted by the human hand.

   ↗I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?interconnects.ai 3rd of 3 in this piece