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Seems learning institutions are no longer fully committed to the art of learning. The counter-productive idea that students are going to hop back and forth with using AI and then not using it is grounded in a serious lapse in learning and academic rigor.

I don't want my children learning from a machine that has no context, introspection or view of the world. Especially as it relates to science, the humanities, art, engineering, etc. Further I don't want to live in a world where I have to wonder if the person making X decision is basing it on something they learned from a statistical error that's been treated as fact and never corrected because... AI.

"Academic Integrity and Teaching With(out) AI". oaisc.fas.harvard.edu/academic

oaisc.fas.harvard.eduAcademic Integrity and Teaching With(out) AI – Office of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct

Happy birthday to trailblazing & scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠

Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree & Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists