Here is yet another threat to the world…
May 19 (King World News) – Gerald Celente: Reliance on AI is destroying the abilities of college students to conduct research, write papers and otherwise perform high level intellectual work.
A recent New Yorker magazine piece detailed what college professors and professionals around the country are reporting, regarding the effects of AI use on students and academia itself. (“Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College: ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project,” 7 May 2025.)
The story noted that an already tech savvy younger generation quickly adopted use of generative AI when OpenAI unleashed a free beta version of their ChatGPT3 chatbot in late 2022.
At this point, students use one or another of major offerings from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic / Amazon and xAI (Elon Musk’s AI company, makers of Grok3), to “take their notes during class, devise their study guides and practice tests, summarize novels and textbooks, and brainstorm, outline, and draft their essays. STEM students are using AI to automate their research and data analyses and to sail through dense coding and debugging assignments.”
The article highlighted a Utah university student who captioned a video of herself using ChatGPT to analyse a textbook chapter: “College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point.”
Why New York Banning Smartphones Won’t Change the Equation
NY Governor Kathy Hochul backed and recently signed into law a ban on students using smartphones in classes.
But that’s unlikely to put a dent in the tech-human symbiosis now evolving to a whole new level via AI.
What happens as smart glasses continue to come into vogue, as we forecasted in our 2025 Top Trend “MIND-VASION: InternalNET” (2 Jan 2025)?
A recent glassalmanac.com article reported that most major tech company execs believe immersive AR (Augmented Reality) smart glasses will substantially supplant and even replace smartphones in “constant use” over the next few years. (“Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman agree : the days of smartphones are numbered, Tim Cook disagrees,” 5 May 2025.)
Meta (parent company of Facebook) continues to bet heavily on the future build-out and importance of metaverse technologies, and Apple and others are competing with their own “reality overlay” technologies.
AI features and “copilots” are a crucial integration and pervasive 24/7 feature of AR glasses.
Is New York prepared to ban this technology in the classroom, too?
And how about AI itself?
As we’ve long noted, Tech companies and the U.S. government are allied in pushing an “AI Arms Race,” casting AI development and pervasive use as imperative to remaining at the cutting edge of technology.
The Times of India and others are reporting that CEOs and higher-ups of more than 200 U.S. companies recently signed a petition urging mandatory AI training and integration into K through 12 classrooms.
Saying the U.S. was falling behind China and other nations regarding AI focused academic initiatives for young learners, the petition stated: “In the age of AI, we must prepare our children for the future—to be AI creators, not just consumers.” (“CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Cognizant and 200-plus US companies ‘raise alarm,’ sign petition saying: US is falling behind, we must prepare our children to…” 7 May 2025.)
It’s clear a ban on a particular device delivery system will likely do little to slow a push for more pervasive AI-Human symbiosis, in order to come out on top of the AI Arms Race.
How can AI proficiency be furthered while banning the primary devices students use to interact with and use AI?
The deeper problem, of course, is that AI development and use is happening at the expense of human development.
The New Yorker article and other recent news all provide more confirmation of forecasts we made in 2023 and 2024 in these pages, regarding generative and agentic AI.
We forecast long before others that generative and agentic AI use would result in diminishing high level human skills, including critical thinking abilities.
In “GENERATION AI: AI LAYING WASTE TO JOBS, AS WE PREDICTED” (24 Oct 2023), we predicted use of AI would atrophy human abilities:
What’s missing from that analysis is any contemplation of how use of AI doesn’t really incentivise humans to gain formerly prized high level technical and knowledge intensive skills.
That’s the part AI does. Instead humans become at best parasites on the host, so to speak. AI will continue to learn from every interaction, swallow up data no humans can match, and self-learn at faster and faster rates from here on out.
In short, AI will get smarter, and probably a lot faster than most analysts are guesstimating.
And in the meantime, humans will actually grow less skillful in high level thinking and technical understanding, as more of that is offloaded to machine intelligence.
TRENDPOST:
Our analysis in “GENERATION AI: AI LAYING WASTE TO JOBS, AS WE PREDICTED” (24 Oct 2023) contemplated whether AI represented a “hard limit” technology, which could not advance “progress” without fundamentally undermining or destroying natural humanity:
The printing press, the Industrial Revolution, and rapid evolution of modern communications, culminating with the Internet and the Age of Information, all contributed to “creative destruction,” whereby former ways of working and creating became obsolete, but were replaced by new opportunities in previously nonexistent industries and occupations.
But at least some observers see in Artificial Intelligence a new kind of challenge to humankind. AI may not conform to the kind of “creative destruction” that has marked previous technological revolutions.
In a growing number of industries, AI, still in its technologic infancy, is already showing itself as a malleable “creative” that can extend to every human endeavor, outdoing human performance at every turn, leaving no province where AI cannot theoretically be used, instead of human intelligence.
And that spells trouble.
Indeed, the transhuman and even post-human implications of rapidly evolving AI and gene editing technologies has been a focus of Trends in Technocracy since this section of The Trends Journal debuted in 2021.
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