Jonathan Haidt
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20 recordings
18 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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And consider this, many of us professors are banishing computers, laptops, from our classrooms.
My students at NYU say they learn a lot better when people aren't on devices, when they don't have a computer and the multitasking staring them in the face.
But if college students can't learn that well when there's a computer in front of them, how do we expect eight-year-olds to do it?
School is an intrinsically social experience.
Students are not learning machines.
They're ultra-social human beings who need to connect with their teachers and their fellow students.
They don't need to connect with more screens.
So here's the second principle of techno-skepticism.
Prioritize people and books and education, not screens.
We should never have let laptops and tablets spread through K-12 education without extensive testing and evidence of safety and efficacy.
But we're about to do the exact same mistake with AI.
You see the pattern here?
We let social media companies take over our kids' social lives, and they've harmed our kids' social lives and their mental health.
We let edtech companies take over our kids' schools, and they appear to be doing more harm than good.
Now, AI companies are coming for their relationships, to be their friends, their therapists and even their sexual partners.
What could go wrong?
We're already seeing massive cognitive offloading and learning loss.
When students have access to AI, they pass the critical thinking over to the AI.
We're already seeing young people becoming dependent on ChatGPT to make their personal decisions and to draft their texts and their emails.
And we're seeing a booming AI toy market.
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