Being in school is also just a tool to knowing stuff, being able to read, and being around similar aged peers, etc.

Whether the knowledge is directly in your brain or in a device you operate (directly or through an API) shouldn't really matter.

If it's forbidden for a human to move a stone with manual labour, then it's also forbidden to move that stone with an excavator. This has nothing to do with the person being a human and the other person being an excavator controlled by a human: it's not authorized.

I think that we should allow humans to move stones up the hill with excavators too. There is no stealing of excavator fuel from human food sources going on (let's assume it's not biofuel operated :p).

> If it's forbidden for a human to move a stone with manual labour, then it's also forbidden to move that stone with an excavator.

Sure, but the reverse is false: I can walk on my own feet through Hyde Park, but I can't ride my excavator there.

Laws are made by humans for the benefit of humans, it's a political struggle. Now, large corporation try to exploit loopholes in the existing copyright framework in order to expropriate creators of their works. It's standard uberisation: disrupt existing economic models, insert yourself as a unavoidable middle man and pauperize the workforce the provides the actual service.