There is something to be said for "our populace relies on tech built by foreign companies" though. Said foreign company is at minimum less likely to install a backdoor for a local government (or be as easily hacked by said local government) than if popular language issues leave the ground ripe for local alternatives to be more popular.

A multiplication table is just a single-digit multiplication vocabulary.

We may have a depopulation shock problem on our hands at the moment, but trying to encourage more accidental births isn't the way to solve that: we need to increase social and financial incentives for forming families and pull away as many of the social and financial barriers thereupon that we can. Not to increase population but to better slow the free-fall of it decreasing so badly that it upsets the actuarial tables.

While I have no way to assess whether better male birth control options would directly positively impact education in particular, I see zero ways it could negatively impact it.

If schooling and learning/education are truly mutually exclusive then who is the most learned and educated person you can point to that never stepped foot in a school? And how do those rare examples compare against the breadth of modern PHD holders?

There are a non-negligible fraction of kids that are kept out of school, homeschooled, etc. If school was as bad for learning as you suggest then one would expect those kept out of it to demonstrate higher-than-average aptitude.

I have legit seen real world adults do things like say "Well, I got ten widgets because I know that's enough for two people. But there's gonna be four coming so.. uh.. 10+2=12, I'll bring 12 widgets"

So for at least some students, there might be some potential in convincing them that "it's what the big kids / cool kids / etc can do" might help motivate them. :)

I didn't see him mentioned in the article and I can't recall what he ever said about biology before..

Who profits the most from it?

The services charging you to defend against it, that's who.

So.. what made it go away, and how could learning about that help us make all the rest of it go away too?

Contrast with Gmail/Gsuite/Outlook365/QuickbooksOnline/etc are down, though.

What you cite here isn't a direct attack on AI but on centralized service provision in general. Unfortunately that battle has been lost for decades, now.