<p>Amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), this paper underscores the historical inevitability of exploring long-term development trends in education and emphasizes AI’s growing influence in this field. It is anticipated that AI will become the leading force in education in the future, and for this reason, human teachers may be required to seek a path of symbiosis with AI. Enlightened by <i>Opinions on deepening the implementation of the “AI Plus” initiative</i> issued by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (2025), this paper explores the inevitability of human society’s continued development of AI and the synchronization between China’s digital education transformation and building China into a leading country in education. Mainly, the paper analyzes AI’s impact on the underlying logic of education: Driven by intellectual curiosity, students can complete the learning process from building knowledge from scratch to profound understanding through continuous interactions with AI, which in turn, leads to AI gradually replacing education’s knowledge imparting function. Consequently, this change may weaken the primacy of competency development in the long run, leading to substantive alterations in multiple dimensions of the traditional educational model. This paper clarifies the analytical logical framework covering four key dimensions—from the micro to the macro levels—proposed in <i>White paper on China’s smart education</i> (Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2025), namely future teachers, future classrooms, future schools, and future learning centers, laying a theoretical foundation and ultimately providing an overarching framework to guide the subsequent research of the relevant field.</p>