Chrisman argues people act as if no other technology exists, pointing to a Princeton professor (via Steve McGuire) who said “AI is demoralizing” and wondered while lecturing whether students would be better off learning from Claude; Chrisman contends that the same argument could have targeted books or YouTube.
Chrisman argues critics treat AI as uniquely problematic, claiming the same critique could apply to existing technologies like books or YouTube rather than just to models such as Claude.
There's a funny thing with AI where people pretend no other technology exists. He could have made this same argument and used books or YouTube in place of Claude.
Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79)
“AI is demoralizing.”
A Princeton Professor says he kept wondering this semester (while lecturing) if his students would be better off learning from Claude:
— https://nitter.net/sfmcguire79/status/2060456494496194958#m