The article quotes Miles Brundage: “If it is not being used in an illicit fashion, A.I. can be a boon for generating larger, more ambitious, more creative text

The article quotes Miles Brundage: “If it is not being used in an illicit fashion, A.I. can be a boon for generating larger, more ambitious, more creative text documents — similar to how calculators have been used to help develop the skills we want to be teaching.” and it continues: Calculators have spared maths and science students the laborious pain of long calculations and allowed for more advanced syllabuses, designed with the knowledge that students will have access to calculators when answering them. The issue I have with this is that the role of the essay in education is not comparable to that of the sort of tasks that calculators automate. If there is an analog of calculators in essay-writing, it would be things like grammar-correctors and style checkers. If AI could be used in the manner envisioned in the quote, we could end up with people writing essays that they do not understand, and presenting arguments for positions that they could not defend. I am not sure that this would be progress. It might be a way for the machines to take over.