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It’s Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System | Thanks to a new breed of chatbots, American stupidity is escalating at an advanced pace.
Thanks to a new breed of chatbots, American stupidity is escalating at an advanced pace.
Probably the most unfortunate and pathetic snapshot of the current chaos being unfurled on higher education is a recent story by New York magazine that revealed the depths to which AI has already intellectually addled an entire generation of college students. The cynical view of America’s educational system—that it is merely a means by which privileged co-eds can make the right connections, build “social capital,” and get laid—is obviously on full display here. In other words, AI acolytes seemed to anticipate that the technology would effectively ruin essay-writing and test-taking, and wanted to spin it to present the ruination as mere “transformation”—a new way of doing things—instead of a destructive force that would devastate education.
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