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Didn’t teachers have a similar argument against using calculators?
AI is simply a tool.
While i agree, don't pretend this isn't orders of magnitude different in how it can effect how people go about solving problems.
Behavioral psychology is going to have fun unraveling just how it changes people's action and thinking.
A web search was orders of magnitude different then going to a library to look up sources.
Amount of work ≠ Type of work
In a library you know if you’re in fiction or non-fiction.
In a web search you have to consider the source before you even start to read or use it.
Kinda - it was about people being unable to do maths if they rely too much on calculators. And it's actually a valid argument, if you care about mental maths*.
There are two differences here, though:
*you should - it's often faster and less laborious to do coarse maths by head than by calculator, and it allows you to spot errors you wouldn't otherwise. Same deal with any other tool, tools are great but you should be able to do the basics without them too.
A tool for what? Automated writing?
This is like trying to tell people you won't through driver's ed, because you rode a bus a bunch of times.
The point of the coursework is to have the children show that they can relate information in a specific way. Showing the information isn't the point, the exercise of constructing the answers themselves in the point.