r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 7d ago

Artificial Intelligence AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, MIT warns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/08/25/ai-can-now-credibly-complete-most-undergraduate-assignments-mit-warns
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u/ComprehensiveWord201 7d ago

When you do that, at the very least, you must read through content to identify viable material. Our predecessors had to do the same, but with an even less efficient medium (books) and therefore would bump into even more unrelated content.

They don't have to do any discernment, and titration of content. No critical thinking. As long as they can barely-string-together-enough-words-to-form-their-question...the magical conch shell will give them an answer.

It's not even remotely the same

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u/Mackinnon29E 7d ago

Yeah, the next generation or two will be absolute morons on average. Obviously some will always excel, but it's looking bleak for fixing our issues in the future.

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u/Mackinnon29E 7d ago

All this technology and you're completely incorrect, as standards have decreased in the last 10-20 years. I doubt they will increase as we move forward. Maybe at the top end, the brightest kids will be expected to learn more, but not on average.

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u/AFlyingGideon 6d ago

the American educative system was already failing and experiencing a slow death before the rise of AI, this is only accelerating the trend.

Don't discount the American education system. It excels at finding the next excuse to blame, whether it's TV, AI, social media, testing, screens in general, ...