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Students Reject AI Demanding Real Learning & Critical Thinking Skills
Student resistance to AI can reflect a desire to preserve independent thinking and real learning. The short argues for using AI to support, rather than replace, critical thinking.
Video summary
The discussion considers why some students are resistant to AI in education. It suggests they want to keep learning through reading, understanding and debate, rather than asking a system for an answer and assuming it is correct.
The speakers describe a tension between AI as a powerful tool and the need to build critical thinking, intuition and the ability to notice when something does not sound right. They raise a concern that constant reliance could limit young people’s chance to develop those skills, while presenting this as a discussion about education rather than a settled conclusion.
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What we're really finding more and more and more is that students actually are feeling very anti-AI. They don't feel like it's doing them a service in their education. They want to learn the way people should want to learn, right? Which is really actually reading stuff and understanding stuff and debating um instead of just typing in a question, getting an answer, and just maybe assuming that's the correct thing.
Yeah.
So, I think there's a lot of a struggle, you know, we've had some graduation speakers this year who are luminaries in the AI field who were booed when they talked about AI's coming into your life. So, there's there's a lot of tension.
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Um which in a way is a little sad because it is an amazing tool. And I think that's what these students are are saying very clearly that they don't want to lose that ability to catch those things or understand those things, be critical thinkers. Um you know, the the ability to catch that your your example is spot-on. The ability to catch that odd word
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is not something that AI is good at. And it probably will always make some mistakes, although they're get it's getting better and better and better. Humans with some base knowledge have an incredible ability to just be like, "Ah, that doesn't sound right." Like, how many times have you said that aloud?
That just doesn't sound right to me.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That gut feeling, that intuition, that um weighing it against the knowledge that you built over years
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helps to break down assuming and just relying on this technology all the time.
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Um and I would agree with you that I think if a person were to really just use these tools constantly, not only it as a native, as a young person, they not only will they not develop those skills, but the concern I think really is, will they ever even have the opportunity to? That's that's scary.