AI in Schools Isn’t Progress — It’s a Sign of How Far We’ve Strayed from the Purpose of Education.
canopic jug writes:
Truthout has an editorial entitled, Regulating AI Isn't Enough. Let's Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. Pushing for AI in schools is part of a larger extractive and dehumanizing trend, as opposed to liberating minds.
Funny - until it wasn't. Because behind the gaffe was something far more disturbing: The person leading federal education policy wants to replace the emotional and intellectual process of teaching and learning with a mechanical process of content delivery, data extraction, and surveillance masquerading as education.
[...] Philosopher Raphael Milliere explains that what these systems are doing is not thinking or understanding, but using what he calls "algorithmic mimicry": sophisticated pattern-matching that mimics human outputs without possessing human cognition. He writes that large pre-trained models like ChatGPT or DALL-E 2 are more like "stochastic chameleons" - not merely parroting back memorized phrases, but blending into the style, tone, and logic of a given prompt with uncanny fluidity. That adaptability is impressive - and can be dangerous - precisely because it can so easily be mistaken for understanding.
So-called AI can be useful in certain contexts. But what we're calling AI in schools today doesn't think, doesn't reason, doesn't understand. It guesses. It copies. It manipulates syntax and patterns based on probability, not meaning. It doesn't teach - it prompts. It doesn't mentor - it manages.
In short, it mimics intelligence. But mimicry is not wisdom. It is not care. It is not pedagogy.
Previously:
(2025) 1960s Schools Experiment That Created a New Alphabet and Left Thousands of Children Unable to Spell
(2024) Schools Under Siege: From Nation-States To Ransomware Gangs
(2024) Some Teachers Are Now Using ChatGPT to Grade Papers
(2023) Dishonor Code: What Happens When Cheating Becomes the Norm?
(2023) Amid ChatGPT Outcry, Some Teachers are Inviting AI to Class
(2023) Seattle Public Schools Bans ChatGPT; District 'Requires Original Thought and Work From Students'
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