ChatGPT Outscores Every Human Applicant on Japan’s Hardest Exam (My Question Is Why Are We Comparing a Tool to the People It’s Supposed to Help?) ChatGPT beat every applicant at Japan’s two most elite universities. Nobody stopped to ask whether that comparison makes any sense! Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by ilgmyzin on Unsplash On April 27, a Tokyo-based AI company called LifePrompt published results that generated headlines around the world. They fed the 2026 entrance exam questions for the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University to OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking model. The answers were graded by professional instructors from Kawai Juku, one of Japan’s leading cram schools. ChatGPT didn’t just pass. It beat every human applicant at both universities. The coverage that followed treated this as a milestone. A warning. A sign of things to come. Nobody stopped to ask the obvious question. Why are we comparing a tool to the people it’s supposed to help?…