This isn’t cognition, though, and it’s on people claiming that the production of outputs counts as cognition to provide a satisfactory working definition of cognition. I wish them luck: whole fields of inquiry have developed in response to this challenge.

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If I was in the Department for Education, not sure I'd be investing public funds madly in AI tutors to combat educational inequality from this finding: "Among the 916 students who sat for both tests, those tutored by AI scored about the same as those who got 'static practice" without tutoring."

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“Al insiders in San Francisco were raving that they'd started to think of Claude as their friend.” I’m sorry, but thinking of a chatbot as an ACTUAL friend is either (a) AI psychosis or (b) absolute loser shit. This is why I just can’t get into the book. These are ridiculous people. Say so.

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"I want to know that my professor is actually sitting with the essays I write." Every student should be empowered to make this demand. And I think the best thing we can do as teachers who are doing this "sitting with" is to be transparent and loud about our choice to do so.

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I don't think Blue state commentators *get* how unpopular the giant, unregulated school voucher programs in Red states are w/ voters. Look at Arizona, where there's support across the political spectrum for imposing strict limits on vouchers. There are few issues this bipartisan!

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