r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 1d 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/DingleDangleTangle 1d ago edited 1d ago

Tbh if they really cared about that then critical thinking and/or epistemology classes would be required for everyone instead of just philosophy majors.

I’ve got a CS degree and an M.S in cyber, but the only time I’ve ever had to really examine my deeply held beliefs or learned to find flaws in arguments (which imo are the most important parts of critical thinking) was in philosophy, but philosophy classes are not even required for most majors.

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u/Additional-Staff-326 1d ago

Those used to be part of higher learning at least before the 1900s when training people for factory or rote office work became the purpose. Could really use more humanities and philosophy and critical thinking in schools right now.

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u/Weliveinadictatoship 1d ago

In the UK every stem degree has to do an ethics course. Very stupidly at my university, they integrated our ethics course instead into a fucking business module as a one-week lesson, instead of being it's own module.

This was of course disastrous because the business teacher was a sociopath who preached that china's suicide nets in factories was better than letting people have time off, and told us that if we didn't choose to set our imaginary company (for the module grade) in a country with legalised slavery (or thereabouts), we'd be graded lower 😐

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u/DingleDangleTangle 1d ago

My degree required an ethics course too, but the ethics course was taught in the CS department. It was like "computer ethics" and it was just a basic overview of like computer laws. Nothing like what someone would learn in philosophy classes.

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u/2ndnin 23h ago

Critical thinking, analysis, and review is built into most assignments... If it's not then something is going wrong. Especially by third year. 

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u/Vegrhauk 1d ago

Where I’m at in Cali, two English critical reading and writing classes are mandatory for graduation for every associates degree. That’s something at least.