Democratised Research Apprenticeship

The class barrier to intellectual development is no longer about content access — the internet has democratised information. What remains stubbornly elite is the tacit knowledge of how to think rigorously: how to formulate a research question, evaluate evidence, construct an argument. AI can provide this structured guided inquiry in any language, calibrated to existing knowledge. A farmer's child in rural Sindh working through a real question she cares about, with a system that asks the questions a good mentor asks: What exactly are you claiming? What's your evidence? What would change your mind?