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As someone in their 30s who went back to university, I am seeing a lot of students use AI to summarize papers they were supposed to read for class or to write papers they were supposed to write for class. This is in addition to using the AI summary feature of a popular search engine as their default, if not only, means of looking up something they're unsure about.

It's often talked about by those that do it with a coolness about successfully skirting dumb rules. For one reason or another, it seems very reasonable to them. Maybe they see it as helping them with the onerous parts of school/ academia. Maybe they see it as the future, and current protests against it as silly.

More specifically, I'm seeing people use AI for things that are an area of weakness for them. By doing that, I think they're missing opportunities to develop those skills, and they will continue to 'miss milestones' so to speak.

I think, in general, people's reading, writing, and critical thinking abilities will go down over decades due to this behaviour. And that scares me. I think those skills are key to a rational electorate. E.g., Lack of such skills = Trump