In the centuries leading up to the invention of the printing press, the highest academic prestige accrued to those who could memorize information and transmit it to others via oratory. Access to memorized  information was the rarified marker for academic prestige. This special prestige was suddenly broken by Gutenberg's invention. Suddenly the printing press made the storage and retrieval of information more accurate and its dissemination more consistent and scalable. As such, the printing press democratized access to and dissemination of knowledge.  

Following Gutenberg, opportunity and prestige shifted from memorization and oratory to the  possession of degrees of knowledge. Indeed per Bacon's famous quote: Knowledge is Power. But since power is power only if it provides differential advantage, AI is disrupting the advantages and privileges that one person has over another owing to the knowledge they possess. Because AI provides immediate access to all standard knowledge to all people, it thus democratizes knowledge and weakens its role as the basis for social hierarchy. The prestige and opportunity shift now moves towards the metaskills by which knowledge is gained and applied. These metaskills include the power to struggle, to struggle consistently, to form mental maps and connections in the face of new information, and the ability to apply purpose from the heart in one's  endeavors. These metaskills cut evenly across the economic spectrum (unlike knowledge which until AI has been primarily the purview and possession of the economically advantaged). This shift in primacy towards metaskills forms a huge opportunity to rebuild new, more accessible ladders to the American Dream. Since metaskills are, indeed, the basis of grit, then all persons,  regardless of their economic status, will be able to compete for educational and career opportunities in the new world where the metaskills of grit carry greater primacy and prestige. Unlike our current world in which the possession of Knowledge remains the primary ladder for opportunity (and before Gutenberg where  memorizing and oratory were the foundations for prestige), in this new world of AI there will be more primacy and opportunity centering  around the skills of asking questions, building connections, and acting with purpose as opposed to the lesser skills - the skills of AI - of having answers.