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The days of learning a skill once and coasting on it for life are over. The new reality, according to AI Campus founder and chancellor Tade Oyerinde, looks a lot like a New York City gym before summer.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the first day of the 25th annual Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen on Monday, Oyerinde posited that AI\u2019s rapid pace of improvement has permanently changed the calculus of education\u2014no matter where you are in your career. All that scrambling to deploy AI that companies and executives are doing right now? That\u2019s not a one-time project that will suddenly reach a final resolution once and for all, said Oyerinde.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry if you\u2019re exhausted,\u201d Oyerinde told the audience. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to do that every year for the rest of your careers, ad infinitum.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He predicts organizations will soon staff permanent \u201ccontinuous learning, continuous development, continuous evaluation\u201d departments, as standard as operations or finance. And with AI models now approaching recursive self-improvement\u2014where each version helps build the next\u2014the curve will only get steeper.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe era of learn once and then you\u2019re done for life is over,\u201d Oyerinde said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have this exponential takeoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the gym, another place where consistency matters. Just\u00a0like \u201ceveryone in New York wants to be hot and fit for the summer,\u201d and puts in two or three hours a week to get there, Oyerinde said, staying competitive at work will demand the same dedication and focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to be the equivalent of hot and fit in your career, you\u2019re going to have to spend two or three hours a week learning how to use the most recent advances in AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

A faster, smarter way to learn<\/h2>\n

The reframing of continuous education as maintenance rather than a single milestone also applies to the traditional thinking around the way schools and curriculums are designed and built. Colleges and universities often take the same approach for vastly diverse student bodies. Instead, AI can map each student\u2019s knowledge at an \u201catomic level\u201d and route them through custom pathways, letting strong students skip ahead while others work on other gaps, explained Oyerinde.<\/p>\n

The result, he claims, is teaching people \u201cabout five times faster.\u201d That was the rationale behind Campus\u2019s 2025 acquisition of Sizzle AI, a learning startup founded by Meta\u2019s former AI chief Jerome Pesenti.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hadi Partovi, who founded Code.org 13 years ago, recently renamed it to CodeAI to reflect the evolution in coding. The organization has focused on helping students learn the basics of computer science and the technology remaking their world. Now that mission has fully embraced coding and AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Every student, said Partovi, needs to grasp how AI actually works, then learn to build with it, and to use it responsibly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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More from Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2026:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says there are days he manages tens of thousands of AI agents at once
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\u201cThis is the most powerful technology that mankind has ever created, and anybody has access to that power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Partovi described himself as a \u201ccautious optimist,\u201d but suggests not treating AI as \u201cthis magic thing that\u2019s been created from above.\u201d Instead, it\u2019s something humans have developed, and everyone should help shape it. That applies to curriculum and learning to code, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, just because AI can read, write, and do math, doesn\u2019t mean schools will stop teaching these skills, noted Partovi. But the rote parts of coding, he said, like memorizing where semicolons and brackets go, no longer matter. What will continue to be important is computational thinking, logic, planning, and problem-solving.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also think we need to start questioning what students should learn,\u201d said Partovi. \u201cMy guess is nobody here in this room uses calculus day to day, and no employer or almost no employer except maybe SpaceX or a few other places, but mostly nobody is hiring the calculus experts. But every student is struggling and thinking they need to get really good at it for almost no purpose whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as education is pushed to evolve, given the way AI is reshaping learning and job opportunities, there\u2019s a need for faster evolution in the way learning takes place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gap between what\u2019s relevant and what schools are teaching is growing as fast as the AI models are changing,\u201d said Oyerinde.<\/p>\n

And as students and companies adapt to the need for continuous new knowledge about AI, the thinking applies to those who are well beyond school or prime executive age. Karin Klein, founding partner at venture firm Bloomberg Beta, said AI can benefit all rather than a few. Klein participates in \u201ctalking circles\u201d with icon Gloria Steinem, who is a lifelong learner.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 92, Gloria\u2019s still learning,\u201d said Klein. \u201cI taught her how to use AI about a year and a half ago, so we all have no excuses, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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