Nice article in today’s WSJ:
“AI has exposed a decline in higher education that has been under way for decades. Colleges increasingly focus on job training and credentials rather than intellectual growth for its own sake. Choose-your-own curricula, runaway grade inflation, and the popular notion of the four-year party are symptoms of the same problem. Students have no qualms about cheating, because as far as many of them can tell, college isn’t about learning anyway.
Education is meant to liberate us from bias and ignorance. By hindering the development of students’ critical faculties, AI is setting up future generations for the opposite. Technology has its place in higher education, but not at the expense of learning. Real students deserve a real education.”
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