AI fuels cheating concerns in schools, mistrust between teachers, students

A Harvard Center for Digital Thriving report finds AI is fueling cheating concerns and mistrust between teachers and students, with students feeling pressure to use it to keep up.

Original headline: “Report: AI fuels cheating concerns in schools, mistrust between teachers, students”

You cannot escape AI. This is capitalism, where competition is the bedrock, and AI is too good to not use.

Thought exercise

Take your mind on a quick jaunt: you're a student, and to effectively compete with your peers, you must adopt AI. By the sheer design of the society we live in, your only path forward is to become dependent upon the technology in order to effecetively compete.

This student eventually graduates and has learned that AI = how I win. Now that student hits the job market, and regardless of the role, they will be using AI.

AI's value proposition is that it's the quasi-thinking compendium of all human knowledge, available 24/7 at lightning speed and accessible by a simple touch or spoken word.

It's better than you at thinking, and so you've learned to offload your thinking to AI. You are a meat proxy, a currently quasi-mandatory interface. This is the future.

But AI can also be autonomous, and unless there's a regulated middleman like the car dealer model, how long will capitalism tolerate an expensive meat proxy?

This student eventually graduates and has learned that AI = how I win. Now that student hits the job market, and regardless of the role, they will be using AI.

AI's value proposition is that it's the quasi-thinking compendium of all human knowledge, available 24/7 at lightning speed and accessible by a simple touch or spoken word.

It's better than you at thinking, and so you've learned to offload your thinking to AI. You are a meat proxy, a currently quasi-mandatory interface. This is the future.

But AI can also be autonomous, and unless there's a regulated middleman like the car dealer model, how long will capitalism tolerate an expensive meat proxy?

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Mike Rowe warns US workforce facing ‘problem of the decade’

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