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Students with access to AI are already over-relying on it. It is a dangerous tool for children to have unfettered access to, just like social media. It's sold, misleadingly, as a panacea for having to do research yourself, having to write things yourself, having to think for yourself.
Sure, learning how to use AI and when to use AI is useful - but its actual usefulness is far, far below the level that people who say things like "Students that embrace AI will outperform traditional students" believe it to be. Everything an AI spits out HAS to be double-checked. AI corps don't want you to think about that aspect. Unless this is hammered home in every class that AI is used in, then it shouldn't be used in school.
Let me present an example from OP's image. Julia complains that AI can write essays better than the teachers who grade the essays students write. Leaving aside the extraordinary skepticism I feel about this statement, Julia is implying that writing essays in school is a waste of time - but learning how to write a functional, persuasive essay, with proper research, sources, etc. is very, very important, because it teaches you to extract the facts you need from sources and cite them to prove your point in a way that can't be refuted offhand. It teaches you to examine your premise, find what makes it tick, and take it apart to find the constituent parts so you can shore them up with critical details that prove it. English courses teach you about grammar, spelling, tone, context, tense... I could go on.
Prompting an LLM to write the essay for you teaches you none of this, and claiming that the two are equivalent is the height of folly. In fact, if someone 'writes' an essay with an LLM, I am much more likely to simply reject it out of hand, because it means they didn't want to take the time to make their own argument. I would rather see the prompt that they used rather than the essay itself, because there will be, in essence, zero additional information in the essay - and asking me to read LLM output as if it provided value of some sort is an insult. I can ask ChatGPT to spew out details on a topic just as well as you can. At least if someone wrote the essay themselves - even if it is poorly written - there's the possibility of them having a novel approach to the topic.
I don't disagree with you, and you don't seem to disagree with me, as we're both saying the same thing: You are not learning the thing you are trying to cut short with AI.
I'm wondering if the downvotes I'm getting really are for saying that AI can have its uses, and that exposure to AI can reveal those.