Say what you will about Oreos and other processed foods, but they do actually contain calories. They are legitimately food.
Here's my experience as a professional educator: AI tools are used not as shortcuts in the learning process, but for avoiding the learning process entirely. The analogy is therefore not to junk food, but to GLP-1, insofar as it's something that you do instead of food.
Students can easily use AI tools to write a programming project or an essay. It's basically impossible to detect. And they can pass classes and graduate without ever having had to attempt to learn any of the material. AI is already as capable as a university student.
The only solution is also hundreds of years old: in person, proctored exams. On paper. And moreover: a willingness to fail those students who don't keep up their end of the bargain.
Here's my experience as a professional educator: AI tools are used not as shortcuts in the learning process, but for avoiding the learning process entirely. The analogy is therefore not to junk food, but to GLP-1, insofar as it's something that you do instead of food.
Students can easily use AI tools to write a programming project or an essay. It's basically impossible to detect. And they can pass classes and graduate without ever having had to attempt to learn any of the material. AI is already as capable as a university student.
The only solution is also hundreds of years old: in person, proctored exams. On paper. And moreover: a willingness to fail those students who don't keep up their end of the bargain.