alt Hacker NewsI think it’s quite tricky. On one side, writing is a form of thinking and cognitive training.
Just NOT doing that work by having AI simulate it is not good for anyone’s cognitive development.
At the same time, anyone growing up today will be using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do. So they should learn about it.
I really feel for teachers/educators right now. It must be hard to remain demanding and insist on educating kids well while also preparing them for the future they’ll actually live in.
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> At the same time, anyone growing up today will be using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do. So they should learn about it.
There's not so much to learn they can't put it into a high school course. Adults currently in the workforce haven't been using AI since they were in elementary school, and they're adjusting fine.
>using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do
These are elementary school kids...if they start using AI in 6th grade, they have 6 years to learn AI before graduating high school.
> anyone growing up today will be using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do. So they should learn about it
Essentially the entire value proposition for AI, particularly as it advances, is that you don't need to learn how to do things anymore.
> anyone growing up today will be using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do. So they should learn about it
Whatever AI looks like in 20 years is going to be so different from what it is today as to make distracting from basic skill-building an almost-certainly net negative educational effort.