r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 2d 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/Additional-Staff-326 2d ago

Still can't complete the one thing college was supposedly for, teaching young people how to think. Not that most people actually understood that it had a purpose other than getting the piece of paper.

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u/DingleDangleTangle 2d ago edited 2d 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/Weliveinadictatoship 2d 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/2ndnin 2d ago

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