Artificial intelligence is already killing off important parts of the human experience. But one of its most consequential murders—so far—is the demise of a longstanding rite of passage for students worldwide: an attempt to synthesize complex information and condense it into compelling analytical prose. It’s a training ground for the most... See more

Another good read: Ted Chiang on why Ai isn’t going to make great art, for The New Yorker . I rather liked this analogy:

As the linguist Emily M. Bender has noted, teachers don’t ask students to write essays because the world needs more student essays. The point of writing essays is to strengthen students’ critical-thinking skills; in the same way

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Critical thinking is dead, but it isn’t ChatGPT who killed it, nor the students who use it. It’s been dead for a long time.

In aggregate, school doesn’t reward thought. It makes no effort to foster it. The students who succeed are not the ones who think the most—it’s the ones who give the most of themselves to the machine. Students must go through

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