@paulg: College students use AI to do most of their writing. An increasing number of professors secretly use it for grading. In…
Summary
Paul Graham comments on the trend of AI replacing human writing and grading in education, suggesting that in the extreme case, humans become mere transmitters of AI output, akin to dead code.
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