Excited, I joined someone's live stream this morning. For 60 seconds, I watched the train sit at a red light, with zero cross traffic. Then I watched a lone truck turn left. Then the lights finally turned green. Utterly brutal.

A long but worthy read. Especially pertinent is the reference to the MIT study comparing LLM users to other groups. Educators have seen the abysmal comprehension when students use these, but having confirmation that repeated use is also destroying whatever edu gains they've made? Deeply frightening.

"... for people who are still learning to think or problem solve in more sophisticated/creative ways, they will be poor evaluators of information and less likely to produce relevant and credible versions of it."

It's not cynical to point out how gullible AI use will make us. It's a reality.

But teachers and academics should be absolutely militant against the integration of AI when it offers to "do the thinking" or to "do the legwork" or to "piece it together".

It's a scam. Like letting your car dealer run a four-square number trick on you to make it harder for you to negotiate.

"I try to appeal to students and explain that by offloading the work of thinking to these technologies, they’re rapidly making themselves replaceable."

As with any technological wave, some tasks will get offloaded. How many people dust off their paper dictionary to spell check?