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if people turn to AI today to avoid actually learning stuff, that just means that they already didn't actually want to learn something, which was probably true even before AI existed, just that they couldn't avoid it back then.
this means your students never had an interest in learning in the first place; they just couldn't avoid it. speaks more about society pressuring people into learning stuff they don't actually care to learn than it does about new technology IMHO.
I think this is partially true. One problem is that when your classmates cheat, your average hard work performance is no longer competitive.
A lot of my classmates used to cheat on French quizzes. I knew the words, usually, but would get like 30% because missing an accent would mark the whole sentence as incorrect. If no one cheated and more of the class earned 30%s the teacher would have realized she needed to either teach differently or give partial credit if you just missed an accent. Instead, it just looked like I was dumb, cause everyone else was getting it.
I think it's like that with AI. if everyone else is finishing quickly, you have to start using it to remain competitive, regardless of whether you originally wanted to learn. These are kids, and they can't understand the opportunity they have yet. They just don't have the life experience to calmly decide to give themselves a huge disadvantage current day for a hypothetical advantage in the unpromised future.
I think that is why many countries have primary schooling as a mandatory thing. Because children don't want to do labor they don't value, mental or physical. But we make them do it anyway, because a critically thinking, baseline educated population is important.
AI just brought more subjects under the umbrella. Someone who wants to win spelling bee will not use autocorrect. They will use a dictionary or thesaurus or guidebooks, but will not delegate their knowledge to a tool. Why would a student interested in learning delegate that to a tool?
i can confirm i haven't used any AI services in my maths homework in the last 2.5 years (since chatgpt came out) because i'm actually interested in maths. other students are not so they use AI. can't blame them for it.