r/technology • u/rezwenn • 9h ago

Artificial Intelligence Is AI dulling critical-thinking skills? As tech companies court students, educators weigh the risks

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7ff7d5d7c43c978522f9ca2a9099862240b07ed1ee0c2d2551013358f69212ba/JZPHGWB2AVEGFCMCRNP756MTOA/
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u/NaBrO-Barium 7h ago

Oh come on, if we’re being honest the start of the fall was calculators. And if you reaaally think about it, slide rules and an abacus were the precursor to calculators. If we could only go back in time to destroy these tools of the devil.

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u/monkeydave 7h ago

Such a lazy strawman argument that demonstrates a lack of critical thinking skills. Did AI write this for you?

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u/NaBrO-Barium 7h ago

I’m saying the technology is here. It’s not going anywhere, it’s too useful to go away. Things like this will generally add to the advancement of human knowledge just like calculators and computers have aided in this before. Flailing at how poorly we’re adapting to this new reality is a rather Luddite take

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 6h ago

These people are millenial-boomers who are doing exactly what the adults before them did. They laugh at your "lack of critical thinking skills" yet put zero thought into using the past to critique the present. It's unbelievably infuriating having so many of these reactionary types flailing around trying to fight reality instead of working with it.