Relentless advancement to produce new gen of 
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I asked Wendy if I could read the paper she turned in, and when I opened the document, I was surprised to see the topic: critical pedagogy, the philosophy of education pioneered by Paulo Freire. The philosophy examines the influence of social and political forces on learning and classroom dynamics. Her opening line: “To what extent is schooling hindering students’ cognitive ability to think critically?” Later, I asked Wendy if she recognized the irony in using AI to write not just a paper on critical pedagogy but one that argues learning is what “makes us truly human.” She wasn’t sure what to make of the question. “I use AI a lot. Like, every day,” she said. “And I do believe it could take away that critical-thinking part. But it’s just — now that we rely on it, we can’t really imagine living without it.”
Is there a certain segment of society that this applies to or is it widespread throughout? Because there must be some people who know this is bad right?
I'm seeing a lot of normalization of this (and other bad things) in high schoolers. They weren't really paying attention to the wider world until a few years ago so anything older than a year or so has basically been around forever and doesn't need to be questioned. Some will learn to question it as they grow and mature, but few have really yet at their age.
Basically they seem to take at face value that it produces worthwhile output and is useful and intelligent. tbf this applies to many adults too, but I hate the conflation of "parrots sometimes-relevant, sometimes-real material" with intelligence just because it sounds confident doing it, and I see it constantly
Coincidentally every level of management at my job is totally in love with the concept of Ai, except for the 60 year old guy in charge of my tiny department. Although the higher levels of management are trying to convert him by sending him on various technical courses, all of which are trying to make him use AI, but the guy is to technologically incapable that he just gives up immediately. The big danger in my department is the 36 year old tech-enthusiast that recently got promoted to assistant manager (no idea what the actual title is, but he is the 2nd in command of our small 20 person office).
Bleak.