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Some teachers worry generative AI hurts students’ critical thinking skills.

Jessica Grose writes in the NYT about educators struggling with students using AI in the classroom. One major worry expressed is that relying on it for brainstorming and writing could make students less likely to power through tough assignments on their own.

It’s almost as if the speed of available technology is making them assume that their human brains should have all the answers.

Right now, teachers have to deal with this issue on their own; some policymakers “appear to have drunk the Kool-Aid on artificial intelligence.”

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