AI is going to make us ignorant and uneducated long before it becomes an actual lethal threat.
JOANNE JACOBS: Let AI do it: High schoolers don’t need to write essays any more. “Good-bye and good riddance” to teaching students to write essays, writes Daniel Herman in The Atlantic. Herman, who teaches English at a private school in Berkeley, welcomes our new robot overlords. Starting this year, he’s shifting …