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Affirmation of Ashanty Rosario [1]
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Date: 2025-09-08
Look, folks—Ashanty just did what the adults can’t: she told the truth from the desk itself. AI isn’t just creeping into the classroom, it’s hollowing out the very marrow of learning. (Read I’m a High Schooler. AI is Demolishing My Education in The Atlantic)
I said it in my Top 10 AI in Education piece: the danger isn’t the tool, it’s the shortcut. Machines mirror our worst habits. Ashanty nailed it—what used to be a frantic, collective hustle at 11:57 p.m. is now just a copy-paste job. That scramble was messy, sure, but it was human. It built solidarity. Now? Flatlined.
Debate used to be a forge. You sharpened your mind against someone else’s fire. Ashanty’s right: AI has turned it into a vending machine. Insert prompt, out pops prefab “arguments.” No grit, no curveballs, no creativity. Just polished emptiness.
And schools? They’re busy playing whack-a-mole with detectors and lockdown browsers. Wrong fight. You can’t out-tech the tech. The only way forward is assessment that breathes: oral defenses, personal portfolios, work that smells like the student, not the server farm.
Ashanty, you’re not just critiquing AI—you’re ringing the alarm on the death of urgency, discipline, and belonging. And you’re right: if we let the machine do all the struggling, we’ll forget how to struggle. And struggle is the birthplace of growth.
So here’s the choice: do we let AI raise a generation of eternal novices, or do we reclaim the messy, urgent joy of learning together?
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