The AI industry has promised to “destroy” much of society, and you only need to look at the U.S. education system to see its effectiveness. Education has been “disturbed”. In fact, this destruction is so widespread and so collapsed that it is not clear that we will once again have a functional society.
A recent story from New York Magazine, perhaps the most unfortunate and saddest snapshot of the current chaos, reveals the depth of AI that has intellectually added to an entire generation of college students. The story involves interviews with many current undergraduates, full of anecdotes, such as those involving Chungin “Roy” Lee, a transfer to Columbia University who wrote a personal paper in chatgpt to get him through the door:
When he graduated in Colombia last September, when he started in Colombia, he was not worried about academics or GPA. “Most tasks at universities are not important,” he told me. “They can be invaded by AI, and I just have no interest in doing them.” Although other freshmen are upset by the university’s rigorous core curriculum, which is described by the school as “intellectually extensive” and “personally transformative,” Lee made a breeze with AI. When I asked him why he had so much trouble going to an Ivy League university and just putting all his studies on a robot, he said, “This is the best place to meet with your co-founder and your wife.”
The cynical view of the American education system, which is merely a means of privileged coeducation that can establish the right connection, establish “social capital” and be laid out – obviously fully demonstrated here. If education isn’t really about learning anything but just a game of wealth, then why not drill into the game as quickly, effectively, and cynically as possible? AI takes advantage of this cynical worldview, exploits vision holders and makes them stupid while also profiting from it.
When you consider the current attack on the education system, it’s easy to forget how quickly this happened. The latest stories from 404 media show that the U.S. education system is largely inspired by the large amount of cheating inspired by the AI industry. After accumulating thousands of pages of school district documents through FOIA requests across the country, Jason Koebler of 404 found Chatgpt “becomes one of the biggest struggles in American education.” Koebler’s report noted that in the early days of the AI flood, the district was proposed by “pro-Aid Consultants” who are well-known to publish “to a large extent encourage teachers to use generated AI in the classroom.” For example, Kobler wrote that the Louisiana Department of Education sent him to him…
…Its introduction consults author called “Chatgpt and AI in Education” by Holly Clark AI injection into classroomauthor of Ken Shelton Commitments and dangers of AI educationand the author of Matt Miller AI for educators. The presentation includes slideshows that say AI is “like giving a computer a brain so that it can learn and make decisions on its own”, note that “it’s time to rethink ‘plagiarism’ and ‘cheating’, and how students use AI to help them write their papers, “20 ways to use chatgpt in class,”warn: Going back to writing essays (only in class) hurts struggling learners and doesn’t prepare our children. ”
In other words, AI assistants seem to expect the technology to effectively undermine the writing and testing of papers and hope to spin it to present it as a “transformation” (a new way of doing things), rather than a destructive force that will destroy education.
This new way of doing things seems to be corrosive not only to students but also to teachers. Koebler’s investigation shows that AI lobbyists make it easier by making appeals to lecturers and proposing to them, showing them that people like Chatgpt will make course building and assignments easier. Now, teachers seem to be taking simple ways out, too, as recent New York Times stories show that university professors have been using chatbots to develop their lesson plans just as their students use them to complete the above courses.
The result of all this is so obvious that it doesn’t really reveal the repetition, but I think I’ll repeat anyway: Everyone who uses AI becomes exponentially lethargic and they get the stupid ones, they need to use AI to do what they were able to do with their minds before. The technology industry’s subscriber-based “AS-A-Service” model is obviously shown here, except that subscriptions will be based on intellectual abilities. The more you subscribe, the less “organic” power you will have. Eventually, the company will be able to deliver AI directly into your brain, and the nerves receive nerves and apples’ nerve plants. Of course, by then, we don’t need to go to school, because we will all be part of the Borg collective.
