alt Hacker NewsThis sounds like one of the "Ironies of Automation" as Lisain Bainbridge pointed out several years ago.
The more prevalent automation is, the worse humans do when that automation is taken away. This will be true for learning now .
Ultimately the education system is stuck in a bind. Companies want AI-native workers, students want to work with AI, parents want their kids to be employable. Even if the system wants to ensure that students are taught how to learn and not just a specific curriculum, their stakeholders have to be on board.
I think we're shifting to a world where not only will elite status markers like working at places like McKinsey and Google be more valuable but also interview processes will be significantly lengthened because companies will be doing assessments themselves and not trusting credentials from an education system that's suffering from great inflation and automation
Replies
I don't know what AI native folks will look like. To me, it looks like just replacing skilled labors with unskilled labors as opposed to giving humans new skills.
AI to me will be valuable when it's helping humans learn and think more strategically and when they're actually teaching humans or helping humans spot contradiction and vetting for reliable information. Fact checking is extremely labor intensive work after all.
Or otherwise if AI is so good, just replace humans.
Right now, the most legible use of AI is AI slop and misinformation.
Perhaps the credentials will change as these academic institutions become more like dinosaurs and other kinds of institutes will arise which give better markers of ability.