Wow, a CEO claims his products will save the world. Groundbreaking! Surely he has no other incentive to say this!

Yes!! It’s a huge red flag that these companies refuse to release any numbers and clearly try to obfuscate. If your product is going to be so massively profitable and world-changing, why not release some proof?

A couple years ago someone pointed out that “brb” has become basically obsolete now that we’re tethered to our phones, and it blew my millennial mind

Why is she so.... sweaty??

Same re: math, but also, learning these skills at the time undoubtedly shaped my thinking, even if I don’t apply the specifics anymore.

A blockbuster film Michael Rapaport and Rob Schneider

But why don't you ever address the substance of his arguments?

I don’t get it though, what exactly is his grift?

🤯🤯🤯

And what’s gross is that it’s not even new, scammy-looking companies. Grammarly, ostensibly a more “respectable” platform, also has tools now to humanize students’ writing and generate text for them based on grading rubrics.

Bro drop the story, I’m on the edge of my seat

AI in education amplifies and intensifies educational systems of product-centredness

AI in education reproduces the idea of de-skilled, casualized pedagogy where the computer is the primary reader of the curriculum/syllabus and the tutor plays a subsidiary role

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.