In the morning, I attend an institutional event aimed at refounding the university. We are encouraged to collectively imagine an AI-native university.
In the afternoon, I read about the risks of student deskilling in Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary:
The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how and why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks.
(…) Within just a few years, AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.