The Problem With Chat GPT

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Chat GPT accelerates the problem of poor education, which has deeply disturbing implications for democracy.
Education should focus on the arduous task of wrestling with text and acquiring the skills of reading thoughtfully and skeptically.
The rise of Chat GPT could lead to a reliance on parroting and the loss of these important skills.
Teaching methods need to change in both high school and college to combat this issue.

In the early 1900s, the philosopher Henry Adams expressed concern about the rapid rate of social change ushered in by new technologies, from the railways to the telegraph and ultimately airplanes. If we transpose Adams's concerns onto the power of artificial intelligence--a power whose rate of acceleration would have exceeded his wildest dreams--you might feel a bit uneasy. Listen as philosopher Jacob Howland of UATX speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why too much leisure is at best a mixed blessing, and how technology can lead to intellectual atrophy. They also speak about the role of AI in education and its implications for that most human of traits: curiosity. Finally, they discuss Howland's biggest concern when it comes to outsourcing our tasks, and our thinking, to machines: that we'll ultimately end up surrendering our own liberty.