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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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I'm still looking for a good reason to believe critical thinking and intelligence are taking a dive. It's so very easy to claim the kids aren't all right. But I wish someone would check. An interview with the gpt cheaters? A survey checking that those brilliant essays aren't from people using better prompts? Let's hear from the kids! Everyone knows nobody asked us when we were being turned into ungrammatical zombies by spell check/grammar check/texting/video content/ipads/the calculator.
Relevant article https://web.archive.org/web/20250314201213/https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a13fc
Admittedly the downward trend began sometime in the 2012s so it predates LLMs.
I agree. It really doesn't look like AI is the thing that broke. More like the education system, or something about social media.