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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

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222 points dougb5 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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akomtu ◴[04 Sep 25 03:21 UTC] No.45123174[source]▶
"The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves."

A quite possible future: you're surrounded by dead-eyed humans with AI implants who mindlessly repeat whatever the chatbot tells them.

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add-sub-mul-div ◴[04 Sep 25 03:26 UTC] No.45123206[source]▶
More specifically, whatever their tech giant of choice (and their advertisers) tell the chatbot to tell them.
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1. blooalien ◴[04 Sep 25 21:14 UTC] No.45132282[source]▶
> "whatever their tech giant of choice (and their advertisers)"

By that time it's highly unlikely they'll have any choice in the matter. ComcastMicrosoftDisneyPepsiTacoBell will make all their choices for them, including being their only provider of truth and knowledge.