If a process that gets actionable results doesn’t require those skills, we will no longer develop them. As bad as it is for us, most of the reason we have education at all is because the business class needed educated workers. As soon as they don’t, support for education will collapse from the business side and with it, we all become American red states. If a student can get through their education, producing good enough answers with AI, why do they need to ever not use AI? If I can get an answer with a calculator I’ll always have access to, I simply exchange a mental math process with a calculator use process. If using AI is faster, with lower error rate, and can do more complex maths, we won’t need those mental math skills anymore. It would be a waste of time to learn them rather than learning AI related skills.
AI is going to upend things across society and we won’t be the ones deciding if it happens or what sacrifices were forced to make.
Critical thinking and communication are crucial life skills that people need to develop regardless of what job they do. Even if technology becomes so advanced that we have computer chips in our brains so that we can constantly search the web, we’ll still need critical thinking and communication skills. One major way we develop those skills is by going to school and doing things like math homework, taking notes, and putting the things we learned into coherent essays. We might learn more effective ways to learn these skills in the future, but that will still require the student to do the work themselves. Just bc they can pass their classes using AI, doesn’t mean they’re actually achieving the purpose of the class. Literally part of the reason why there are kids thinking that LLMs are search engines that will answer their questions with facts 100% of the time is bc those kids lack the critical thinking and reading comprehension skills to properly understand what LLMs are and what they should actually be used for. If we were to say, “actually it’s fine for kids to just use AI to spit out the right answers on their homework bc they’ll always have an AI on their phone in their pocket. Plus who needs critical thinking” then we’re leaving those kids vulnerable to manipulation by those who control what the AI’s say, just like how the lack of proper education already present in the USA leaves kids (who then grow into adults) vulnerable to propaganda
Inform disagree about the benefits of those skills, I just question whether we’ll still effectively produce adults who have them. People are lazy and they’ll take a good enough solution through AI than a better solution through their own effort, children are particularly prone to this. On the other side we have billion dollar companies that would love nothing more than a population completely dependent on their devices to survive, whose AI divisions are mostly unregulated and and whoa re currently collusion in a dictatorial overthrow of Americans democracy, so I don’t think they give a shit if our kid’s lives end up fucked up from a lack of critical thinking. They aren’t held accountable for anything their technologies do to us.
If a process that gets actionable results doesn’t require those skills, we will no longer develop them. As bad as it is for us, most of the reason we have education at all is because the business class needed educated workers. As soon as they don’t, support for education will collapse from the business side and with it, we all become American red states. If a student can get through their education, producing good enough answers with AI, why do they need to ever not use AI? If I can get an answer with a calculator I’ll always have access to, I simply exchange a mental math process with a calculator use process. If using AI is faster, with lower error rate, and can do more complex maths, we won’t need those mental math skills anymore. It would be a waste of time to learn them rather than learning AI related skills.
AI is going to upend things across society and we won’t be the ones deciding if it happens or what sacrifices were forced to make.
Critical thinking and communication are crucial life skills that people need to develop regardless of what job they do. Even if technology becomes so advanced that we have computer chips in our brains so that we can constantly search the web, we’ll still need critical thinking and communication skills. One major way we develop those skills is by going to school and doing things like math homework, taking notes, and putting the things we learned into coherent essays. We might learn more effective ways to learn these skills in the future, but that will still require the student to do the work themselves. Just bc they can pass their classes using AI, doesn’t mean they’re actually achieving the purpose of the class. Literally part of the reason why there are kids thinking that LLMs are search engines that will answer their questions with facts 100% of the time is bc those kids lack the critical thinking and reading comprehension skills to properly understand what LLMs are and what they should actually be used for. If we were to say, “actually it’s fine for kids to just use AI to spit out the right answers on their homework bc they’ll always have an AI on their phone in their pocket. Plus who needs critical thinking” then we’re leaving those kids vulnerable to manipulation by those who control what the AI’s say, just like how the lack of proper education already present in the USA leaves kids (who then grow into adults) vulnerable to propaganda
Inform disagree about the benefits of those skills, I just question whether we’ll still effectively produce adults who have them. People are lazy and they’ll take a good enough solution through AI than a better solution through their own effort, children are particularly prone to this. On the other side we have billion dollar companies that would love nothing more than a population completely dependent on their devices to survive, whose AI divisions are mostly unregulated and and whoa re currently collusion in a dictatorial overthrow of Americans democracy, so I don’t think they give a shit if our kid’s lives end up fucked up from a lack of critical thinking. They aren’t held accountable for anything their technologies do to us.