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AI in academia risks making students and faculty dumber, author warns

The author argues against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia, cautioning that it should not be viewed solely as a tool to overcome time constraints or as a superior intelligence. Instead, the focus should be on how AI is already being used by people to potentially diminish critical thinking and maintain docility. AI

IMPACT Raises concerns about the potential for AI to reduce critical thinking and increase passivity among students and educators.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece discussing the implications of AI in academia.

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    We cannot continue treating #AI in academia as either a technical fix of our students’ (and our own) limited time and resources, thinking the machine is smarter

    We cannot continue treating #AI in academia as either a technical fix of our students’ (and our own) limited time and resources, thinking the machine is smarter than us, while at the same time ignoring all the humans who already employ it in myriad ways to make us even dumber and…