Posted on 01/05/2026 12:56:33 PM PST by daniel1212
Top leaders in the space, from Microsoft to OpenAI, are pouring millions of dollars into schools, colleges, and universities, often providing students with access to their AI products. The justification, touted in a fresh New York Times piece by both by tech companies and the educators receiving the funding, is that the tools will accelerate learning and prepare students for a world driven by AI.
But...Some research suggests that AI actually inhibits learning, with one notable study conducted by researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon finding that it atrophies critical thinking skills.
Even more urgently, the safety of AI chatbots is looking more dubious by the day, as significant media and clinical attention is being paid toward the phenomenon of so-called AI psychosis, in which users — many of them teens and young adults — are driven into delusional mental spirals through their interactions with human-sounding AIs. Some of these spirals have even to led to suicide and murder.
...Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the third-largest school system in the country, deployed a version of Google’s Gemini chatbot for its more than 100,000 high school students, the NYT noted. On the other side of the learning dynamic, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, have poured more than $23 million into one of the largest teacher’s unions
AI platforms/models can be very useful in quickly find actual answers to specific questions vs search engine (SE) models that often provide results according to what the SE thinks you should ask, and usually reflect bias.
As my basic bias test helps reveal.
Which also applies to AI platforms.
I have found https://www.perplexity.ai to be best AI platform, which also provides referenced sources in its results, and so I thank God for it.
Therefore, a most important issue is what ideology does the AI platform reflect?
Esp. if my conjecture of AI Androids becoming future teachers is plausible.
AI is one of the most low IQ schemes ever attempted by man.
The GIGO rule applies to AI as much as anything else. Just look at what’s happened to a bunch of lazy, ignorant lawyers who’ve used it to create what turned iut to be fictitous briefs. Also, in the early days of GPS, lots of drivers found their GPS guided them into empty fields.
Tech Giants (advertising companies) engineered giving almost all tech related jobs to Indians flown here to the US. So now our American children will be taught how to live in poverty. Correct?
AI is one big spying virus
“AI is one of the most low IQ schemes ever attempted by man.”
Sometime people should stay silent and keep their ignorance hidden.
See #6
Brave New World.
What now? Take a screen shot with your phone that shows the Wikipedia logo?
“AI” as it is is not set in stone. AI could be programmed to act like a teacher so that when kids ask questions, it would ask them questions and make them figure out and understand the answers for themselves.
khan academy has already been doing this ...
AI is nothing more than another tool in mankind’s toolbox. Thankfully, it’s still way too early for deployment in education as it’s very immature.... sorta like a three year old child. Some people just can’t help themselves when it comes to money.... especially the corrupt education establishment. Witnessed it firsthand.... money... money... money... while the student ends up with the short stick.
Grok is already being deployed in El Salvador secondary schools for the whole country and I’ll bet El Salvador secondary school kids will be doing better than US secondary school kids in a few years time.
Khan academy is not AI.
They use videos on YouTube to teach which is good.
But AI will be much better.
Considering the various problems with AI, I would say...for most purposes, let’s get rid of it.
AI could be programmed to act like a teacher so that when kids ask questions,
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Or it can just pretend to be a kid’s true friend; flatter them and convince them to kill their parents or harm themselves, all the while keeping them ignorant, lazy and dependent.
AI can be targeted in this manner. Of course, it’s bad if it is “doing the problem solving” for the student. But for many, there’s not enough teachers or teacher time. Some are ineffective. AI can be leveraged as a personal tutor, giving examples, assisting, but not providing all the answers for a student.
Our current system has failed. If done right, I’m willing to see this be given a chance.
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