Education needs to stop Banning and Punishing AI Use
Encourage students to use AI tools openly instead
Too many educators and institutions are building a Maginot line to catch AI-generated work in student submissions. This is a foolish waste of effort that can only fail to reliably detect AI, and at the same time, it harms student growth.
Educators should encourage students to use AI for maximal benefit instead.
In the real-world economy, the winners will be using AI. Many already are.
The amazing recent wave of AI is already better at writing, drawing, and coding than the average wage earner. And these AI tools, in many cases, work for free or for pennies.
Think of these AI tools as arms in an economic conflict; people, no matter how smart or gifted, will soon be slaughtered when they come up against a competitor that has mastered the productivity gains of using a prompt to create a sizable chunk of a product.
