Dan GillmorI retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
Mastodon MigrationThe article mentions Neil Postman's book Technopoly (https://ia601802.us.archive.org/27/items/235p-technopoly-neil-postman/235p%20technopoly-neil-postman.pdf) in which he explores the interrelationships between technology and humanity, and in particular the effect of new technology on "rewiring" our minds. This is not a new phenomenon and has been going on since the advent of the written word. Lately, however, things have really taken off. Postman would not be surprised by AI, but he would certainly be profoundly saddened.
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