AI ruining education is a good thing
Probably one of my most unpopular opinions out there, but a lot of people are very concerned about what AI will do to education, how students will cheat their way through school and how they won't learn anything, but honestly, I don't think that's a bad thing. In some fields, there are already talks about how hiring agencies take degrees after 2023 less seriously because they can't be sure that the student actually did any work in Uni. And yeah, right now, that's genuenly horrible. But, I think this will cause us to rethink how we teach and train students and we will be forced to reform our education system, which is something we have desperately needed for like at least 15 years at this point. If this finally makes the current god awful model unsustainable, then fine by me. Because all the complaints about AI are things students already did, it was just harder. Instead of AI quickly throwing together a presentation, they just quickly copied stuff from Wikipedia. Same with essays and writings. Now it became easier to do it, but the problem existed beforehand: with the internet and unlimited information in your pockets, traditional teaching models didn't make any sense and especially homeworks and home projects lost their purpose. Like, I had to do so much presentations in school. That was before AI. And I learned absolutely nothing from it. Not a single thing. I forgot every presentation I did. Same for homeworks. They are useless in the modern age. And AI might finally push us back to stronger in classroom learning and pop quizes and oral tests and lots of in classroom exercises and even brand new ways of education, that I'm honestly happy about.
Same goes for university. Because oh my god, universities are even worse. You pay an ungodly amount of money, just to go to a lecture when you don't learn a single thing, get assigned books and instead have to teach yourself at home. Then why am I paying all this money? If university degrees become meaningless because of AI, people won't go to university and universities will absolutely suffer a huge financial blow from that and they will have no choice but to completely rethink their education models, so that once again they will produce actually knowledgeable processionals.
I'm not an AI Evangelist and all things considered, I lean negative on my views of AI, but honestly, this is one thing I don't mind, that it finally fully exposed the long existing problems with our education in a way that makes it genuenly unsustainable to not change them.