Colleges Are Preparing To Self-Lobotomize (theatlantic.com) 89
The skills that future graduates will most need in an age of automation -- creative thinking, critical analysis, the capacity to learn new things -- are precisely those that a growing body of research suggests may be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process, yet universities across the United States are now racing to embed the technology into every dimension of their curricula.
Ohio State University announced this summer that it would integrate AI education into every undergraduate program, and the University of Florida and the University of Michigan are rolling out similar initiatives. An MIT study offers reason for caution: researchers divided subjects into three groups and had them write essays over several months using ChatGPT, Google Search, or no technology at all. The ChatGPT group produced vague, poorly reasoned work, showed the lowest levels of brain activity on EEG, and increasingly relied on cutting and pasting from other sources. The authors concluded that LLM users "consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" over the four-month period.
Justin Reich, director of MIT's Teaching Systems Lab, recently wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education that rushed educational efforts to incorporate new technology have "failed regularly, and sometimes catastrophically."
Ohio State University announced this summer that it would integrate AI education into every undergraduate program, and the University of Florida and the University of Michigan are rolling out similar initiatives. An MIT study offers reason for caution: researchers divided subjects into three groups and had them write essays over several months using ChatGPT, Google Search, or no technology at all. The ChatGPT group produced vague, poorly reasoned work, showed the lowest levels of brain activity on EEG, and increasingly relied on cutting and pasting from other sources. The authors concluded that LLM users "consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" over the four-month period.
Justin Reich, director of MIT's Teaching Systems Lab, recently wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education that rushed educational efforts to incorporate new technology have "failed regularly, and sometimes catastrophically."
I'm sure the alligator will eat us last! (Score:5, Insightful)
Leaning into LLM's brain-smoothing process (please stop calling it AI, it's not intelligent) is just a final act of desperation by overpriced, outmoded forms of education. Hoping that the LLM monster eats higher education last if it plays along is a horrible idea.
Instead, they should be doubling down on teaching the socratic method, critical thinking and real curiosity - stuff that LLMs will never do. The schools that do this will thrive by swimming against this idiotic tide.
Re: (Score:2)
It does not need to be intelligent in order to qualify as "artificial intelligence." In this context, the word "artificial" means "fake." Like "artificial leather" which is not actually leather, or "artificial crab meat" which is not actually crab meat.
The phrase has been around a long time in the domain of computer science and has always been used to mean "that which imitates intelligence (without actually being intelligent)."
You are not alone in your distaste for the word use here. But you are also gre
Re: (Score:1)
Let them... (Score:2)
preparing? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:preparing? (Score:4, Insightful)
Much more likely, your memory is highly fuzzy, but you do remember someone mentioning the word "racism" once or twice while you were on campus, and it made you really angry for some reason.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Well, only if you want to call, for example, all the math classes and CS and chemistry etc "outside the major" for purposes of (in my case) a Physics Major. In your case, you probably don't want your EEs getting a degree without math, physics, and CS for example.
I think the real question here is "what fraction of a major is lib Ed stuff?". At my school, it's 30 out of 120 credits for everyone (EE included). To be fair, many majors require more than the minimum "120" credits anyway, decreasing this percen
Re: (Score:1)
Re:preparing? (Score:5, Insightful)
"By the time I had my degree, I learned to hate feminists and leftwingers. I was pretty liberal up until the end."
I believe none of those things are remotely true.
"I'm not saying you won't learn important skills."
You're not saying anything at all, you're just pushing a partisan narrative.
"It's a welfare system for people who couldn't care less if the students get degrees or not."
And you don't even know what welfare is. Moron.
I'm not worried (Score:5, Interesting)
People sometimes say that we'll be jobless when we're in our 40s. Putrid, old brains. Too set in our ways. Not in demand anymore.
Bollocks.
We'll be the last generation to actually possess any knowledge and critical thinking skills. More in demand than ever before.
Re:I'm not worried (Score:5, Insightful)
It is getting really sad though. On an average team of 15-20 you get something like the following breakdown these days:
- 1-3 people who actually know wtf is going on. Usually old fucks who do this stuff for fun.
- 1-2 people who show a little promise, but are way under experienced.
- The middle are usually newer graduates. They spend like 2 hours of an 8 hour day actually doing "work". The rest of the time is bitching about capitalism, fascists or rambling about Trump. Pretty much useless. When they do work it is minimal. They will get stuck on something and just set on it for weeks until they are forced to get one of the top 1-3 to pretty much "help"(do the work for them).
- 1-2 people at the bottom who have the inability to understand anything. They will run something through chatgpt once a week and cut-n-past it into an MR. Usually has nothing to do with the problem. Sadly, these are usually immigrants with poor english and no technical experience(HR helps them through the process). They are incapable of learning.
Anyone want any Brawndo?
Re: I'm not worried (Score:2)
Yep. That's a very accurate description my friend.
Re: I'm not worried (Score:1)
AI is (sadly) where the jobs will be. (Score:1)
The problem is that graduates who know how to research and reason and write will end up working at Starbucks. Short sighted employers are going to hire people who can cut costs by doing everything with AI, not people who want to take time doing it right. It will be a business disaster in the long run, but the CEOs don't care because they will get seven figure separation payouts.
But maybe down the line the smart people will get paid to clean up the mess. Like the good programmers who are now getting paid to
Re: (Score:2)
Consider that maybe they won't work at Starbucks, a scarier thought given the lowered standards in some institutions.
Re: AI is (sadly) where the jobs will be. (Score:2)
Critical thinking comes from hands-on experience (Score:5, Insightful)
Critical thinking comes from experience. From learning over decades what good looks like, what good doesn't look like, and how to extrapolate your experience to a new subject.
If you never learn how to do anything well yourself, how are you supposed to gain that experience in the first place?
Re: Critical thinking comes from hands-on experien (Score:2)
They shouldn't allow for computers in most classes (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, learning is effort. Paper and pencil can get you a long way specially on hard topics.
Even having a laptop pc can be detrimental because it's super easy to get distracted.
Surviving Capitalism. (Score:2)
I mean, learning is effort. Paper and pencil can get you a long way specially on hard topics.
Even having a laptop pc can be detrimental because it's super easy to get distracted.
Remember when suggestions like this were more often received as sound wisdom gathered through decades of life experience instead of going viral as a shitty “racist” comment from some CIS-gendered..well you get the point from Gen Victim professionally trained to broadcast abuses for gig profit.
There are those that would argue the American higher education system is doing just fine, and in no way needs help from AI. Unfortunately those are the same professors who tuned the American college campus
Re: Surviving Capitalism. (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
If GDP per hour worked is now over $100 in the US, how can you be so sure $50/hr minimum is "no answer"?
Because not even the billionaires want to pay $200 for a fucking pizza. That’s why.
You’d think COVID would have made the problems of rapid unjustified inflation quite obvious. About 98% of the world still remembers pre-pandemic pricing. The only reasonable price tags that survived that were under the category of mass addiction. Go figure.
And I’ll believe that $100 GDP value as soon as the AI overlords agree that $300/hr is the standard corporate tax penalty for AI entities that replace
LLMs do not (Score:5, Insightful)
give you the ability to shed critical thinking skills. Just the opposite, you need to increase critical thinking to figure out when it's lying or not.
Re: LLMs do not (Score:1)
Re: LLMs do not (Score:2)
On one hand you're right, on the other hand, unmet need is unsustainable
Re: (Score:3)
If you are really smart, yes. You will understand that. Most of my students limit LLM use, also because they have to pass an exam without. But less smart ones? They will just become dependent and learn nothing.
Re: (Score:2)
Just the opposite, you need to increase critical thinking to figure out when it's lying or not.
Computer says no.
Plato ... (Score:2)
It's not the tools on the institutional end of the educational transaction that matter. Its what the students utilize to accomplish their end.
Re:Plato ... (Score:5, Informative)
Plato was wrong about almost everything. Philosophers supported his teachings because he wanted a government ruled by philosophers. His supporters held back science in Europe for a thousand years. Best thing out the Great Schism (1054) was dumping him from recommended reading.
Re: (Score:3)
That is absolutely correct, Plato's vision was a monstrous police state nightmare that did more to inhibit the development of Western civilization than any other single factor. When people talk of elitism and "rule by the enlightened" what they really mean is, effectively, a new branding for totalitarianism and disregard for the individual.
Re: (Score:3)
It's a catch-22, and always has been.
Dictatorships are tyrannical no matter how intelligent the leaders are. And given the power structure they have, there is absolutely no way to ensure that the dictator even cares about the people at all.
On the other hand, most people are idiots. They are extremely vulnerable to fake facts and other forms of manipulation, so their voting power isn't actually a form of political power held by the people so much as held by the people who manipulate the people.
What we actu
Re: (Score:2)
Plato was wrong on this one. He was not wrong to generally be skeptical of tools. A tool needs to prove its adequacy and usefulness before it sees general deployment. LLMs have not done that in the education space.
Re: (Score:2)
Plato, they say, could stick it away -- half a crate of whisky every day.
Well, of course. (Score:5, Interesting)
Those are also things those in charge - financial and political - don't want the masses to be good at. Those skills help people think for themselves. For the most part, the ruling classes want docile, dependent workers that just do and believe what they're told. Here's an interesting bit from Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Reveals Why Billionaires Are Going Crazy Over AI [youtube.com]
Sanders: AI is going to come. You don't have to do this job. You don't have to do that job. Really, really good. Do you think that is what Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos have in mind? Do you think that's why they're spending hundreds of billions of dollars to say, "Hey, isn't this great? We can lower the work week. We can guarantee health care, high-quality health care to everybody. We can expand life expectancy. We can solve global warming. Man, let's go do it. That's what we want to do."
Sanders: Do you think that's what these guys have in mind?
Questioner: Probably not.
Sanders: Probably not.
Sanders:They are not staying up nights worrying about working people. In my view, they want even more wealth and they want even more power. So the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it.
Re: (Score:3)
Those who are in government (the closest thing we have to a "ruling class") are just as diverse as those who are in the general population. If you don't believe me, look at the difference between Trump and Biden. Were they not as "ruling class" as it gets? Are you suggesting that they are really alike because they are in the "ruling class"?
The phrase "ruling class" is a one that announces that the speaker is leftist, just as surely as the use of the word "woke" announces that the speaker is Trumpist.
Re: (Score:2)
The phrase "ruling class" ...
I get your points, but I simply used it for lack of something better coming to mind quickly about people who are literally in charge of - aka ruling - things -- like the rich, politicians and politically connected. I'll note that those in the "ruling class" and those who are "woke" aren't mutually exclusive, as your imply; it's not a Left vs. Right; Trump(ist) vs. Others thing. It's more of a Haves vs. Have-Nots thing with the former always wanting more and them not caring if the latter have less. Thoug
Re: (Score:2)
I'll note that those in the "ruling class" and those who are "woke" aren't mutually exclusive, as your imply; it's not a Left vs. Right; Trump(ist) vs. Others thing.
Ah, but yes it indeed is exclusive. You will never find conservative influencers yammering about the "ruling class" just as you'll never find liberal influencers complaining about "woke." Prove me wrong!
There's a reason for this. Liberals believe there are classes of "haves" and "have nots" and that people are stuck in those classes. By contrast, Conservatives (real conservatives, of which Trump is not one), believe that these classes are fluid and self-determined. I can personally attest. I grew up in a po
Re: (Score:3)
I grew up in a poor family that qualified for free school lunches as a result. I put myself through college because my parents couldn't afford *any* of my tuition or room and board. I started with nothing, and worked my way to the upper-middle class. Nobody, no government, gave it to me, I got myself there.
Government didn't give you those free school lunches? Also, if you were that poor, you would have qualified for college tuition assistance - if you didn't take it, that's on you. I'm sure. if you think about things a little more, you'll find many "liberal" programs helped you along the way to "getting there yourself" -- many programs that Democrats want to fund and Republicans don't.
I also don't think your characterization that liberals believe people are stuck as haves or have-nots, or that conservati
Re: (Score:2)
Yes, you are right that free school lunches were a form of government assistance. But those lunches did not lift me from poverty to the upper-middle-class. I did get through college with the help of some *private* scholarships, but mostly, I worked my butt off to pay my way through. I'm not here to say that poor people don't need assistance, even from the government. What I am saying is that government assistance is not what moves the "have-nots" to the "haves."
Elon musk is about one person: Elon Musk. He i
Re: (Score:1)
mostly, I worked my butt off to pay my way through
There are plenty of people still working their butts off and getting very little in return. You didn't pay for your education. You paid for a small part of it. You imagine you did it on your own, but there were a whole lot of other people whose help and contributions you apparently take for granted.
You will never find conservative influencers yammering about the "ruling class" just as you'll never find liberal influencers complaining about "woke."
Because if they did they wouldn't be identified as conservative or liberal in your mind. There is whole group of people whose reality is created by the label they put on things.
Re: (Score:2)
You seem to be willing to make very confident statements about things you know nothing about, such as the proportion of my college tuition and fees that I paid on my own, vs. what was given to me, and about my level of gratitude. Why should I respect what you say about other subjects?
Let me define "conservative" for you. A conservative is someone who believes in:
- limited government
- personal liberty
- personal responsibility
- rule of law
- traditional social norms
- free markets, including across borders
These
Re: (Score:2)
such as the proportion of my college tuition and fees that I paid on my own
No one is talking about your tuition and fees. You think they cover every cost of your education? That they cover your k-12 education?
Let me define "conservative" for you.
Let me define it for you so you don't think it just means every cliche in your head. It means being adverse to risk. And since change and anything new are by their nature subject to new risk, conservatives are generally skeptical of them. They prefer proven options over the promise of innovative new ones.They prefer things as they are rather than welcoming change. That is tru
Re: (Score:2)
The cost of public schools is covered by taxpayers for people of all economic classes, not just the poor. Yes, I do believe the government has an important role in providing basic education for everyone.
As for the definition of conservatism, you are conflating the definitions of two related words. To be risk-averse is a definition of "conservative" but not "conservatism" as a political philosophy, especially as it pertains to the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The meaning of conservatism in the United States is different from the way the word is used elsewhere.
So your statement might be tr
Re: (Score:2)
>Those who are in government (the closest thing we have to a "ruling class")
Sorry but they are bought and paid for shills and puppets of the REAL ruling class - multi-millionaires, billionaires, and corporations that give them money and bribe them and get legislation passed that THEY want. THAT is the real ruling class.
Why do people keep pointing at the wrong thing? It's so obvious, and yet people are like "NO! Look over there!"
No, the politicians aren't the ruling class. They are the middle class, as yo
Re: (Score:2)
Oh yes, the shadowy figures behind the scenes that are pulling the puppet strings, but nobody can actually identify. It's kind of like those blurry bigfoot sightings, despite everybody having high-res cameras in their pockets at all times. But don't believe what "they" are telling you, Bigfoot is real, I swear!
Whoever is controlling things--millionaires or politicians--it's not a unified bunch. There a thousand different viewpoints, ranging from the My Pillow Guy to Bill Gates, and everything in between.
Re: (Score:2)
>shadowy figures behind the scenes that are pulling the puppet strings, but nobody can actually identify
Lol, they HAVE been identified, repeatedly.
Just look at the legislation in the past 60 years. Just look at the campaign contributions, and the revolving door of politics and industry/lobbyists.
Some people just pull the wool over their own eyes.
Re: (Score:2)
OK name them then, at least, some of the prominent ones.
Yes, there are lobbyists who go into politics and vice versa. That fact does not prove a coordinated conspiracy, or suggest that there is a unified, shadowy puppet master cadre that "really" controls things. The reality is there are *many* factions of lobbyists who want *conflicting* things, just as the general voting population has many factions of voters who want conflicting things.
The phrase "ruling class" implies unity of purpose. This unity does n
Re: (Score:2)
But more importantly, the entire education system has collapsed. Districts are graduating students and sending them to college where they take ELEMENTARY level remedial courses. Like, 2+2=?.
If you think someone wants the population to be as dumb and pliant as possible, shouldn't you look at
Diploma mills - indoctrination mills (Score:4, Insightful)
At which point about the time folks internalize how worthless they are, we will have choked off the supply of new professors.
Then the robot owners own both history and education.
Re: (Score:2)
If you have an IQ over 115 and no children, then Idiocracy would be your fault. And, sadly, mine.
The solution to avoid Idiocracy is simple. Upon graduating from college/university, immediately get married and start having children. Don't wait, just reproduce. Don't worry about being ready, nobody is ready until they've already had a kid.
Re:Universities Already Self-Lobotomized (Score:4)
When I'm helping my kids with their homework, and there's a concept that I know well, but I just don't know how to teach it, I turn to ChatGPT.
"Tell me how to teach division by sharing to a 2nd grader."
I get back a simple, straightforward, step by step set of kid friendly instructions. It's really great! Use the tools!
Ah, The Late Great Human Race (Score:2)
Between COVID brain issues and now Ay-Eye dumbing down, the human race is gonna be mighty different going forward.
Hey, maybe this is how the Morlocks and Eloi came about!
Re: (Score:1)
Good for us grey haired folks. (Score:3)
When people discover that a whole class of incoming folks can't find their way to anything where the path isn't a straight line, we might see a surge in reverse ageism.
CliffsNotes for a new generation (Score:5, Interesting)
Back when I was in school, a number of students thought that they could use CliffsNotes in lieu of studying the actual material as a shortcut when handing in papers. Problem was that CliffsNotes overly summarized material, so your papers tended to be shallow or generic, which clued most teachers into your activities. I recall a few teachers keeping students after class and then pelting them with questions about the material that weren't covered by the CliffsNotes. If they stumbled, they were given a failing grade for the paper.
I see AI in much the same way. It is okay at providing generalized summaries for well covered topics, but I find that it quickly goes off into the weeds for anything more niche, complicated, or requiring nuance. More often, I find myself mining the responses for their sources. But I can often find the same sources much faster using a web search. So, what is the benefit here again?
Re: (Score:3)
And regardless of ou
Re: (Score:2)
More often, I find myself mining the responses for their sources. But I can often find the same sources much faster using a web search. So, what is the benefit here again?
We can do the same with Wikipedia. Wikipedia gives you a nice summary, and lists all the sources so you can read more. It also uses a shitload less electricity than a commercial LLM. I suspect the only "benefit" of using an LLM is for the owners of that LLM.
Headline - Biased Reporting? (Score:2)
How can you trust a source when their are posting such a polarizing headlines? This is what drives me crazy with any news source, this shows it as an opinion piece rather than news.
Surplus population? (Score:2)
I think the bigger problem (Score:2, Insightful)
Critical thinking and right-wing politics do not mix. The core fundamentals of right wing politics are trickle down economics and a blind faith in authority. Hierarchy basically. The idea that there is a natural order with some people at the top, some people in the middle and some people in the bottom.
I can see why this theology would be appealing to some people. It implies that there is an order to the universe and t
Re: (Score:2)
I think you're also mistaking the fact that
Re: (Score:2)
"Right wing politics favors free markets and individual responsibility. "
No it doesn't not even close. "Right wing politics" favors deregulation at the expense of free markets and individual responsibility for you, not for me.
""Trickle down" economics was based on the recognition of a fact - the relationship between tax rates and revenues is not linear, it's a parabolic curve. "
LOL, "trickle down" was an abject failure and no one believes in that any more. Now billionaires don't justify their greed, they
Re:I think the big problem (Score:1, Informative)
Re: (Score:2)
Everything the parent said was correct and you did not refute any of it with this drivel.
>envy
Lol. What? If anything, the envy the lower class right feels for immigrants is the thing ripping this country apart at the seams right now, with troops in the streets casually firing tear gas.
>government-owned monopolies
Um. Hate to tell it to you, but Biden never took a Government stake in any companies, UNLIKE Trump in this term. So who is trying to have the government interfere in business? Lol. You fail ag
Not even trying to talk about the real problem? (Score:2)
I have conversations with bots about topics I'm curious about or have trouble with frequently. I've never allowed it to write for me, because my writing is better. People don't learn when they use AI because they didn't want to learn that shit in the first place. They are going through school because they live in a system that requires credentials to even plausibly pretend they can achieve a stable livelihood. They're giving that the effort it deserves. Good. Hope it all burns to the ground.
Re: (Score:2)
So, they're just trying to keep enrollment up in the face of c
Atomic hype market (Score:3)
Back in the days the excitement around the atom bomb was huge, and the public perceive a newness of atomic technology and radioactivity. So we had not just radium on our wrist watches, but people also adding uranium, polonium, and thorium to products. With Firestone spark plugs, and Tho-Radia face cream being examples of the latter.
AI hype is the same thing. We're going to allow a lot of dangerous stuff enter into our society and when a bunch of people get hurt, we'll back off. But we can expect a lost generation when bad technology infiltrated our education system and leads millions of students astray. When they are unemployable, we'll just shrug and try to replace them with AI, and then forget that living, breathing human beings are going to steal and rob the rich if it's the only way to survive.
It depends on the college (Score:5, Informative)
I have taught C++ and other computer science classes at a community college for the past 9 years. I started out only using paper exams, and students had to print their code for homeworks and projects. Then during the pandemic we moved online, and other than a couple of semesters, my classes have stayed online. Virtually all of the community college CS courses, for the entire state system, are online. I lecture virtually instead of in person and all assignments and exams are done through Blackboard.
Now with AI, I cannot distinguish between what a student wrote vs what AI wrote. It's absolutely impossible to tell the difference. Before AI, I could often tell when someone got help (if you submit code that doesn't match your skill level on the exams) or copied someone else's assignment (if you hand in the same code with the variable names changed...). Again, now I can't tell at all.
At the community college level, the deans are stuck with a problem: fewer students are enrolling, and those students want to learn about AI because they see it as the next job skill you need to have. At the state university level, the CS dept has gone the other direction: exams are on paper and homework is now 5% of the final grade instead of 50%
I tell my students at the beginning of the semester "You are paying tuition to learn the material in the course. Using AI to do your classwork is like going to the gym and having a robot lift the weights for you. Don't use AI"
When I was a computer science and engineering undergrad 25 years ago, there was talk of creating a licensing process for software engineers, similar to civil engineers. It was a terrific idea and I hope it got traction. But AI has turned software engineering into a mess. Software is every bit as critical to the safety of humans as civil engineering, but you would never trust AI to create buildings. The software engineering students of today are absolutely ill-equipped to write the vital software that is used today.
Re: (Score:3)
Re: (Score:3)
More than 10 years ago, in my C++ class, every week we had to complete an assignment which we then validated using an online validator. That validator was the single source of truth for our marks.
It ran with mudflap (now ASAN), without, with other sanitizers, and had an extensive battery of tests it validated the work against, also ran performance tests.
It also ran an automatic check for plagiarism. (never heard of a false positive)
It was a love/hate relationship.
And the best: it wasn't binary (pass/fail),
Re: (Score:2)
"It was a terrific idea and I hope it got traction. "
No, it's a terrible idea and always was. It's not intended to solve the problem you think, nor does it solve any problem you want.
"But AI has turned software engineering into a mess. "
Perhaps, but licensing programmers does nothing to solve that.
An article from 2014 (Score:2)
https://bgsp.edu/app/uploads/2... [bgsp.edu]
Strawman (Score:3)
When, in reality, this is not what UF, UM, etc. are doing when they say "integrate AI education." Rather, it is likely the case that programs will be teaching students ABOUT AI - what it means, what its limits are, how it can effectively be used, where its limitations are, and how to use it to support productivity.
Because there's no doubt that employers want employees who understand AI and can use it effectively.
The headline and breathless summary is just a strawman; clickbait nonsense.
Lies! (Score:2)
The computer is perfect and can do no wrong. Beep.
No evidence (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
There is evidence right in the story. I guess you have terminal AI brain-rot.
Re: (Score:2)
There is evidence right in the story. I guess you have terminal AI brain-rot.
No, there really isn't. Its your brain that's imagining it.
Re: (Score:2)
The evidence is on my tests, when students who used AI (or Chegg or whatever) to not think at all about the homework or classwork through the semester hit an exam and can't do jack without their helper.
The student evaluations are then filled with indignation from those same people who whine about tests not covering the same thing as the homework. When in fact many homework problems are recycled as test questions: but they abdicated the chance to learn by actually working to do so, in the process developing
Not surprising (Score:2)
This is exactly what any smart educator expected and the smarter students do too. A lot of mine are not using AI or using it only very carefully.
What we will increasingly see is a large divide between good and bad students. Not a surprise at all.
I think it's part of the plan (Score:2)
The skills that future graduates will most need in an age of automation -- creative thinking, critical analysis, the capacity to learn new things -- are precisely those that a growing body of research suggests may be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process
I've said it before and I'll say it again: in the future envisioned by Thiel, Andreessen, Yarvin, and others, there will be the ruling class and the abject rabble. Thinking, learning, and analysis are not desired in the people whom they plan to rise above, rule, and ultimately dispose of. These psychopaths see the rest of us as a drain on limited resources and as obstacles to remaking the world in their own sick and twisted image. When we're no longer useful to them - and a lot of us already fall into that