How AI Could Solve Education (Instead of Breaking It)
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From cheat GPT panic to AI tutors that double learning gains, what if the bots could fix school instead of ruin it?
All right, welcome humans to episode five of the Neuron podcast. I am Corey Knowles, the editor of the Neuron, and riding shotgun as always is our resident wordslinger, Grant Harvey. How's that classroom vibe today, Grant?
God, I'm ready to learn. Or is it ready to teach?
I don't know. It's a good question. I guess we're going to figure that out here in just a little bit. So today, everyone, we're ditching the doom scroll headlines about cheat GPT and broken classrooms to ask the contrarian question. What if AI could actually fix school? We'll start by laying out some cracks in the modern education system, from overworked teachers and one-size-fits-all pacing to brand new headaches that AI has uncovered and introduced us to. We see you over there, copy-pasted essays. So then we're going to flip the script a little bit, explore how the very same tech that might unleash 24-7 personal tutors, mastery-based progress, and a shift from cramming facts to honing judgment. So by the end of this episode, you'll have some fresh takes, practical guardrails, and maybe a little optimism for that next parent-teacher night.
So whether you're a lifelong learner, a burnout teacher, or simply AI curious, let's grab a seat here because class is in session. All right, so Grant, would you mind walking us through the problems that educators are seeing right now?
Yeah, I mean, you summed it up with copy and paste essays, but I have a video that I think kind of summarizes this whole thing, and then we'll get into it from there. So I'm going to share my screen. So this is a video from the UCLA graduation that happened about a month ago now. And this is what happened. So the teleprompter goes to this guy. His name is Andre Mai. And on his screen right there is ChatGPT.
That got me through the whole year or something, isn't it?
He's flexing his use of ChatGPT. After his diploma's in his hand, I hope. Yeah, so that's the actual UCLA graduation. So apparently you can get a degree. I think the term is conferred or revoked after that point. So he doesn't actually have it at the point that this video was taken. However, there's some nuance here. But obviously, if you're just watching that and you see that for the first time, you're like, oh, okay, cool. This kid is actively flaunting his use of ChachiBT to graduate.
It feels like a really bad move to do that to me.
Yeah. Yeah, it comes across really bad. And of course, this went viral. I mean, you see here this video has like 8.6 views just on Reddit. It was originally on Instagram. I mean, teachers everywhere flipped out over this. It was a big, big controversy. But it turns out that not all is as it appears. And what happened here was actually Andre Mai, who's the student, is a computer science, particularly AI student. researcher. So he was actually using AI for an AI class. And as he said in a video in collaboration with OpenAI, he was actually using it with his teacher's permission.
Oh, wow. See, that lightens the blow a little bit and hopefully keeps his degree for him.
Yeah. So basically what this kind of shows is that this topic is like a huge lightning rod. And while he was just using AI literally at graduation to finish an assignment that was due that night, he was summarizing all of the equations and formulas that he had to write for his computer science class. He was putting all of that together for the class assignment that was due that night. And when the cameras came and were filming him, he basically just flipped around his laptop and he was showing them what he was working on. And then, of course, the crowd went wild, so he just went for it. But that image in and of itself is so striking because it hits on a nerve that a lot of teachers everywhere and everybody, society at large, you could say, is really concerned about, which is this idea of,
of college students using ChatGPT to cheat their way through school. And I think right now the assignment or the last statistic I read is that 90% of college students admit to using ChatGPT.
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