Rich families have tried to personalize their children’s education since the days of ancient Greece, when Alexander the Great’s father hired Aristotle as a tutor for his son. 

The AI age is ushering in a new iteration of this behavior as anxiety looms about how the technology will reshape work opportunities for young people and how best to prepare them for an economy that could see less entry-level hiring and more requirements for AI literacy.    
  
Some families are shelling out up to $75,000 per year to send their kids to the AI-powered Alpha School: A spokesperson told *Fortune* it has more than 1,200 students as it plans to expand to 50 campuses this year.   
  
There, students spend two hours per day on core subjects with an AI tutor before devoting their afternoons to workshops designed to hone skills like public speaking and relationship building. Human teachers called “Guides” are still there to get to know and motivate the students, but they don’t plan lessons or grade homework.    
  
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Wealthy parents are buying their kids $75,000 AI schooling with guardrails as schools grapple with a literacy crisis