Let’s Stop Blaming AI For Our Mediocre Systems

Could we use it to actually improve them?

children sit around an AI in the shape of a floating sphere in a futuristic classroom, sleek digital art — by DALL·E

As public concern grows over children using Chat GPT (developed by the same organisation behind the AI used to generate the images of these articles) to fake their essays, I am appalled that the concern isn’t about the frailty of the education system. I will admit that I did well in this flawed education system. I could absorb the ideas presented by the teachers effortlessly and translate them into logical and logical writing by the set deadline. My only resentment toward the system in which I excelled is that I feel it could have pushed me a lot harder.

However, this isn’t about me or you but about the collective, and current schooling is far from optimum at getting the best out of most people. I remember watching some of my classmates in horror as they passed exams and submitted essays without properly learning anything. Whenever a topic we had covered extensively a couple of years before would come up in conversation, they would have no idea. Of course, I had also forgotten the details, but I would have felt stupid if I hadn’t got the gist of it. What was the point of school then? It is a small wonder that kids will switch to an AI to produce an average text that meets the requirements.