No. of Recommendations: 8
A recent study of 26,000 Chinese secondary-school students found that A.I. adoption led to an 18 percent increase in homework scores, but a 20 percent decline in scores on secure exams. The implication was that rushing through homework with help from chatbots degraded the deeper learning needed to perform well when the technology was not available. .
From today’s Times, schools (universities) are conflicted about whether to embrace AI or deemphasize it. It seems, from the example above, that allowing it to flourish unchecked could have some adverse consequences for, well, everybody.
An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind.
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. nytimes.com - Universities AI warnings enthusiasmI’m sure there has been a sci-fi story or novel written about the times when humanity has lost the ability to think and reason because of a surrender to the machines, and if not, there’s a plot device to get one started.
