Automating the Global Economy · Module 13

Education, Research & Knowledge Systems

Sector stage: Operating Today

Education, Research & Knowledge Systems Knowledge is the engine under every other sector — it’s how we learn to grow food, build machines, cure disease, and solve the problems no one has solved yet. Automating how knowledge is taught, discovered, and shared accelerates every other module in this project.

What this sector automates — 15 deep dives
Demonstrated

Automated Education & Training

Imagine world-class teaching available to every person, at their own pace, in their own language, for nearly nothin…

Building it: Khan Academy, Carnegie Mellon, ASU

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AI Tutoring Systems

The most effective teaching is one-on-one — and for most of history, only the wealthy could afford a personal tutor…

Building it: Khan Academy’s, Carnegie Mellon

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Automated Workforce Retraining

Automation changes jobs — and the moral test of this whole project is whether the people whose work changes get a r…

Building it: Google Career Certificates, Microsoft Learn, NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

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Automated Technical Education

An automated economy needs people who can build, run, and maintain the machines — and those are good, well-paying j…

Building it: NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, Microsoft Learn, Google Career Certificates

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Automated Robotics Education

If robots and AI are going to run much of the economy, people need to know how to design, program, and maintain the…

Building it: Robotics & AI learning, NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, Carnegie Mellon

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Demonstrated

Automated Trade Skills Simulation

You can’t learn welding, wiring, or plumbing from a textbook — the trades demand practice, and practice has always …

Building it: Labster

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Automated Language Translation

Knowledge locked in a language you don’t speak might as well not exist.

Building it: Translation systems, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator

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Automated Scientific Research

Every cure, every clean-energy breakthrough, every better material starts as research — and research is slower and …

Building it: DeepMind’s AlphaFold, NSF, NIH

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Automated Research Laboratories

What if a lab could run experiments around the clock — designing, executing, measuring, and learning — far faster t…

Building it: Self-driving & cloud labs, Emerald Cloud Lab

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Automated Materials Discovery

Almost every breakthrough — better batteries, cheaper solar, lighter vehicles, stronger buildings — comes down to a…

Building it: AI + robotic materials science, Materials Project, Citrine Informatics

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Demonstrated

Automated Biology & Chemistry Research

Designing a new medicine or a useful protein once meant years of painstaking trial-and-error — now AI can design th…

Building it: DeepMind’s AlphaFold, Institute for Protein Design, Isomorphic Labs

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Demonstrated

Automated Patent & Knowledge Mapping

Humanity produces more research and patents than anyone can possibly read — so good ideas get duplicated, missed, o…

Building it: USPTO, Google Patents, Semantic Scholar

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Automated Civic Education

A free society depends on an informed public that understands how government works and can think critically about i…

Building it: Library of Congress

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Automated Public Libraries

The public library is one of civilization’s best ideas: free, universal access to knowledge for everyone.

Building it: Digital Public Library of America, Internet Archive

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Automated Research Vault

Every claim in this entire project rests on evidence — and the Research Vault is where that evidence lives, open fo…

Building it: Semantic Scholar, Human Cell Atlas

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