‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
TL;DR
Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that education stands at a crossroads between embracing new technology for efficiency and pushing back against it. Her case is blunt: a tool designed from scratch to enable authoritarian rule would look a lot like AI. She points to disinformation at unprecedented scale, mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons. She also warns of a shift of power and wealth from the many to a very small group of men.
Nauti's Take
Rundell names a real risk: when schools hand thinking work to models, students lose the stamina that education is supposed to build. The same technology also carries the opportunity to scale individual feedback and support in ways no teacher can manage alone.
Schools need clear rules about how it is used rather than a yes or no verdict, because blanket bans hand the design decisions to someone else.
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