A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

Makes you realize how fast this has happened. This is a "get off my lawn" article by a high school senior.

It's part of the job of education to instill some common culture. (Which common culture varies, but not all that much outside political topics.) For students, questions about that culture are new issues. LLMs have digested a huge amount of existing material on it. LLMs are thus really good at things students are graded upon.

This gives students the impression that LLMs are very smart. Which probably says more about educational practice than LLMs. The big problem is not cheating. It's that the areas schools cover are ones where LLMs are really good.

There's no easy fix for this.

But schools teach basic things (mostly). Basic things will have a lot of information about. Therefore, LLMs will always be good at things taught in schools. I don't think that's something we can change, children need to learn basic things.