Corey Robin

Tag: AI

The best reason yet to ban AI

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I just read an oped in an Ivy League undergraduate newspaper arguing that it is a matter of basic justice for the university to pay for and provide students with access to the most up-to-date AI platforms. Duke University, the oped argues, is already paying for and providing its students with this platform. If this Ivy League university not does follow the example of Duke, Duke students will have an “unfair advantage” over this university’s students. The university must make this technology available to ensure that its students are competing on a “level playing field.” This article, I should say, may be the best reason I’ve yet found for why universities should ban AI. Until you’ve been forced to sweat […]

What happens when a society that can’t learn uses machines that can?

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In 2008 or thereabouts, society launched an experiment: What happens when grownups give smart phones and related technologies to kids? Less than twenty years, and a rampant teenage mental health crisis, later, we have the results, and a majority of states are banning or limiting phones in classrooms. In 2020, we launched an experiment, because we had no other choice, using online technologies for teaching students of all ages, down to kindergarten and pre-k, and dramatically reducing or eliminating in-person instruction and contact entirely. Most of us now back in the classroom, in real life, have a pretty good sense of how that experiment, however necessary it was, turned out. Now, in 2025, the New York Times reports today: OpenAI, […]