“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
https://chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/the-ethical-case-for-resisting-ai/
https://chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/the-ethical-case-for-resisting-ai/
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We circumvented deductive math with the calculator.
It’s just change.
Here’s a thought:
Every time a class turns in their homework, pick one at random and make them work the solution. If they can’t, it’s a public fail.
AI is just a tool
Given that chemistry solutions manuals are on the internet, their content has probably been slurped up.
And yes: it’s plain HOW solutions manuals have been used for the AI training.
I’m maintaining as much status quo as I can this term, so I’m reassigning points in the course to make the homework worth less and the exams worth more. I hate that. But it’s something I feel like I have to do to reward preparation and not short-cuts.
But students still need the practice that homework provides, yes?
(And we can’t build our course grades on homework’s back, because of how easily that homework will be gamed.)
Love the point about how we're giving up our humanity; I have been talking about this with my students. Why are they in college, if not to stretch their own minds?
Even if an AI helps them put the presentation together, they still have to give it and answer Q&A.
Most human technology has done the opposite of enriching our lives. AI is already being used by despicable people so can only lead to disaster.
And then I read Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb and, whoa!Rhodes made clear that science is a profoundly human endeavor: creative, boring, inspired, tiresome, lonesome, social & on & on.