What Is College for in the Age of AI?
Artificial intelligence can write the essay, solve the equation, generate the code, summarize the book—and increasingly perform the very tasks students have traditionally done in order to learn.
So what happens to education?
In a striking new statement, MIT calls the arrival of generative AI a “watershed moment” for higher education. But rather than simply asking whether students should be allowed to use AI, MIT is confronting a much larger question: What should a university actually teach when answers are becoming almost free?
In this episode of The Common Room, we use MIT’s new approach as…
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