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AI isn't destroying anything. Don't blame the technology for what humans do with it.

AI should allow every student to have personalized instruction and tutoring. It should be a massive win.

If everyone instead of taking advantage of that refuses to do any work and decided to lie and pass the AIs output off as their own, that is not something the AI did. The students did that.

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> AI should allow every student to have personalized instruction and tutoring.

I admire your optimism.

Funny how everyone has their own dream of the miracles that “AI” should perform. It's just the perfect silver screen for everyone to project their wishes on.

In the same vein, AI is a boogeyman that people can pin all their fears for the future on.

Naturally, “perfect silver screen” works for any purpose.

We turned higher ed into a qualification producing factory subsidized by the government at the expense of the kid's financial future. We overemphasized passing over learning, as the education is about the title, not the knowledge. It's not the student's fault that we created this incentive structure. The students that want to learn can still learn, those that come to higher education with a transactional mindset now can just pay for their degree. The truth is we are at the point where the logic of the commodification of our higher education system is being taken to its logical conclusion which is its own undoing.

Let's throw away the potential of society because young adults are lazy and AI must be empowered. Or, we could realize the realities of human behavior and INTELLIGENTLY integrate AI. But nah, fuck society/fuck young adults for having the typical young adult mentality.

> AI should allow every student to have personalized instruction and tutoring

But wouldn't, so we only have the loss of cheating replacing learning.

Is this the AI investor version of avocado toast?

Blame is for small children and God. Moloch will require his sacrifice regardless of whom you choose to blame.

Second this. Sick of seeing posts like this because correlation =/= causation, proved time and time again. It's just too easy to 'relate' these two things and leads to lazy writing / persisting this narrative which has in no way been proven to be true yet.

IMO the underlying cause has much more to do with a hiring cycle issue: the boom of the low-interest / free money / I-don't-need-to-pay-for-an-office covid years is now leading to the relative hiring "bust" (even though it's not really a bust, unemployment is at 4.2%, certainly nothing out of the ordinary for the US)

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