Is AI making us less intelligent? By James Titcomb
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/20/is-artificial-intelligence-making-us-more-stupid/
Offloading our brains on to increasingly sophisticated tech risks damaging our ability to think critically.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/20/is-artificial-intelligence-making-us-more-stupid/
Offloading our brains on to increasingly sophisticated tech risks damaging our ability to think critically.
The human mind is in a recession
https://www.ft.com/content/c288abc6-24a4-4062-aeb4-05c463ae7289
Related: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/the-human-mind-is-in-a-recession/ar-AA1z9ll0
https://www.ft.com/content/c288abc6-24a4-4062-aeb4-05c463ae7289
Related: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/the-human-mind-is-in-a-recession/ar-AA1z9ll0
Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/opinion/read-books-learning.html
Tim Donahue:
The study of English involves more than reading. It includes written expression and the cultivation of an authentic voice. But the comprehension of literature, on which the study of English is based, is rooted in the pleasure of reading. Sometimes there will be a beam of light that falls on a room of students collectively leaning into a story, with only the scuffing sounds of pages, and it’s as though all our heartbeats have slowed. But we have introduced so many antagonists to scrape against this stillness that reading seems to be impractical.
The test scores released at the end of last month by the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveal disturbing trend lines for the future of literacy in our country. Thirty-three percent of eighth graders scored “below basic” on reading skills, meaning they were unable to determine the main idea of a text or identify differing sides of an argument. This was the worst result in the exam’s 32-year history. To make matters worse, or perhaps to explain how we got here, the assessment reported that in 2023 only 14 percent of students said they read for fun almost every day, a drop of 13 percentage points since 2012.
AI risks making us all stupid: it’s time to act
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/ai-risks-making-us-all-stupid-its-time-to-act/
Could it be that politicians have forsaken their own critical thinking because they’ve been using ChatGPT too much?
Tim Donahue:
The study of English involves more than reading. It includes written expression and the cultivation of an authentic voice. But the comprehension of literature, on which the study of English is based, is rooted in the pleasure of reading. Sometimes there will be a beam of light that falls on a room of students collectively leaning into a story, with only the scuffing sounds of pages, and it’s as though all our heartbeats have slowed. But we have introduced so many antagonists to scrape against this stillness that reading seems to be impractical.
The test scores released at the end of last month by the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveal disturbing trend lines for the future of literacy in our country. Thirty-three percent of eighth graders scored “below basic” on reading skills, meaning they were unable to determine the main idea of a text or identify differing sides of an argument. This was the worst result in the exam’s 32-year history. To make matters worse, or perhaps to explain how we got here, the assessment reported that in 2023 only 14 percent of students said they read for fun almost every day, a drop of 13 percentage points since 2012.
AI risks making us all stupid: it’s time to act
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/ai-risks-making-us-all-stupid-its-time-to-act/
Could it be that politicians have forsaken their own critical thinking because they’ve been using ChatGPT too much?