alt Hacker NewsAI merely exposes the inherent flaws in how we do education (exams, especially failure) - which I personally and honestly don't have a solution for. Both the carrot and the stick rip out some of the gold that is human potential (while instilling some useful skills and behavior).
The knee-jerk reaction of banning AI is probably the wrong choice, people need to learn where the limits are, but I also wouldn't be able to suggest a framework where students aren't rewarded for skirting around being educated.
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This is objectively false. AI stunts and reduces the learning process. Banning it is 100% the right move.
> AI merely exposes the inherent flaws in how we do education ... The knee-jerk reaction of banning AI is probably the wrong choice, people need to learn where the limits are
But you can't do that without a certain level of maturity.
> but I also wouldn't be able to suggest a framework where students aren't rewarded for skirting around being educated.
Well, then "knee-jerk" ban AI in schools... until you can suggest such a framework, and test it to show it works, and roll it out at a society-wide level.
Until then, you're just handing kids flamethrowers in a highly flammable environment, and saying "we'll just figure out the problems later."
The big problem with education is that all the work is done for grades instead of aiming to deliver value to others. It's important for students to practice but if you raise the bar high enough then AI is just one tool that helps you but doesn't have all the answers. If AI can do all the homework we have to ask ourselves how much value the homework had in the first place.
I reckon it's a similar issue to wikipedia when that became a resource available to us in school. Being taught how to use AI as a resource as opposed to 'the source' is the critical distinction. Which I guess is also the same issue when it comes to professionals and how they use AI
The word 'graduation', regarding education, somehow lost its original meaning -- to measure peers against one another -- its sinister edge can be easily visualized by imagining a class of graduates stuffed into giant graduated cylinders clearly showing their achievements with etched gradations along their respective tubes. It is difficult for society to consider this process as the, or major contributor to the, problem of education rather than AI. I tend toward the belief that we place too much value upon these highly dubious and artificial systems of academic assessment; AI is providing a long overdue opportunity to evaluate the excesses and weaknesses of institutional education.
The push for AI adoption in K-8 is the one that strikes me as wrong. The Alpha School and other initiatives are pushing AI on groups for which we have dubious measures of impact. Ostensibly, they are doing this to avoid pushback from traditional curriculum requirements in high school and university - but those kids are going to end up there eventually.
Why would I believe that someone who can't use a mouse/computer is ready to be taught by AI?