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Students are using AI tools instead of building foundational skills - but resistance is growing


The unfettered adoption of AI might damage skills development, yet it doesn't have to be this way.

That's when I explain: this is what happens when you let a machine that is essentially a stochastic probabilistic auto complete engine sitting atop the same technology sucking up the identical database eating itself and being fed the same prompt looks like." Universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity." "It's not the same quality as the computer scientists we graduated 10 years ago," she stated in a recent webcast hosted by Mia Shah-Dand, founder and president of Women in AI Ethics.

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