Today on the AI Daily Brief, is AI going to destroy, or on the other hand, completely reinvent, education?

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Well, as we speak, millions and millions of students and millions and millions of parents all across America are

getting ready for back to school. For some of us, the late August, early September, returned

to school still decades after our formal education ends feels more like New Year's than

New Year's in some ways. It's a moment for reinvention and for considering the future. And as this new

school year begins, the future that many parents and students are considering has to do with AI. For this

long read slash big think episode, we actually are going to read excerpts from a few different pieces.

And afterwards, I will make an argument that

core to the question of AI's impact on education is what we think the point of education actually

is. But let's read some excerpts from these pieces first. The first comes from opinion columnist

David Brooks. His piece is called, Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber?

David starts by establishing his AI optimist credentials. He says I'm generally optimistic about all

the ways AI is going to make life better, scientific research, medical diagnoses, tutoring,

and my favorite current use case vacation planning. But it also offers, he writes,

a malevolent seduction, excellence without effort. It gives people the illusion that they can be good at thinking

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