AMERICANTHINKER - Totalitarian Ideologies 101
American Thinker AI By Sheldon Bart We need to start teaching students to recognize totalitarianism so they can resist it.
NYTIMES (Dana Goldstein) - What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
AXIOS (Megan Morrone) - "There's no point": AI forces college students to rethink their major
Students — and their parents — are searching for future-proof college majors for an AI -powered world. Why it matters: AI is changing the skills employers expect from entry-level workers, while colleges are rethinking how to prepare students for the transition. The big picture: Rumors of the death of jobs might be greatly exaggerated , but college students and graduates are still worried about what comes next. - College instructors and administrators need to spend more time thinking about what students are going to do with their degrees and how what they've learned applies to their career, Casey Evans, interim dean at American University's Kogod School of Business, tells Axios. - Parents expect it too. "How are you connected to…
AI:The rapid encroachment of artificial intelligence into the professional world is triggering a crisis of confidence within higher education, forcing students and parents to frantically re-evaluate the value of traditional college majors. With 69% of students expressing dread that AI will obstruct their job searches, many are abandoning established fields like accounting in favor of broader disciplines to avoid being replaced by automated systems. While institutions attempt to pivot toward teaching "AI literacy" and project management for AI agents, the fundamental reality is a massive shift in labor expectations; employers are raising the bar for entry-level workers, demanding sophisticated critical thinking and human oversight that many…Open
AXIOS (Megan Morrone) - Exclusive: College students want ethical AI
The number of business students regularly using AI has increased from 6.2% to 29% over the past three years, according to research from American University's Kogod School of Business , shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The chorus of AI boos at college graduations last spring doesn't tell the whole story: Students increasingly see AI as a critical job skill but want more guidance on using it responsibly. The big picture: Those commencement jeers aimed at AI boosterism captured real anxiety about the future. But most students aren't fully avoiding the technology. - Undergraduate and graduate business students want "more structured preparation to use AI effectively, ethically, and competitively in the workplace," per the study. -…
AMERICANTHINKER - Straight As, Empty Minds
Perchance AI By Jim Cardoza When half of graduates receive A’s while increasing numbers of degree holders embrace economic ideas that consistently fail the tests of history and human nature, the problem is no longer merely educational.
DAILYCALLER (Ann Rodgers) - Brown Professor Warns AI Is Making Students Dumber After Cheating Scandal
‘We cannot choose to become idiots.’
A Brown University economics professor says a take-home exam intended to accommodate students traumatized by a campus tragedy instead exposed what he believes is one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted cheating scandals in Ivy League history. According to Inside Higher Ed , Brown economics professor Roberto Serrano said he became convinced that widespread AI use had occurred after students in his Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory course earned unusually high scores on a take-home midterm administered during the spring semester. Serrano had converted the exam from an in-person test to a take-home assignment after the December shooting at Brown University that killed two students, hoping to reduce stress for…Open
AMERICANTHINKER - When People’s Actions Demonstrate Who They Are, Believe Them
ChatGPT By Marc E. Zimmerman We have met the enemy and he is us.
NYTIMES (Benjamin Wallace) - The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors
A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now?
AMERICANTHINKER - Seeing the whole page: Why critical thinking matters in America’s future
The stakes are enormous.
AMERICANTHINKER - Are Americans Enabling Our Enemies?
Perchance AI Naïve and uninformed Americans are surrendering to a system that is hell-bent on the destruction of this country and our freedoms.