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I don't think people with existing skills will ever adopt generative AI as part of their daily practice. Instead, I think we're going to see lines drawn in the sand. After all, the folks who have those skills worked to establish them, often spending years honing such skills and going into debt to establish mastery in their fields. I fully expect to see many people bias generative AI as a form of cheating. Early testing shows that those with underdeveloped or emerging skills rather than those who have mastered skills are the most likely to benefit from adopting generative AI in their jobs. This suggests that such adoption could benefit those unprepared, unmotivated, and struggling students the most. It also suggests that their higher-performing peers will see the least amount of help from adopting generative AI. What's lost in this is we want as many students as possible to develop mastery in skills for their studies and their future careers, not use generative AI as a crutch to help them pass. ... I said this last year and think it rings truer today-the mark of future mobility will not be having access to a college education. Rather, it will be if you could afford to go to an institution where a human being taught you or if you had to attend one where you learned from an algorithm.

Good examples of situations and potential responses starting at 41 min in.

Dude has absolutely no interest in or sympathy for higher ed, but the rest of the essay is super interesting.