Is it a problem if students cheat using AI?

A really bad take I'm hearing: "It's fine if students use AI to cheat at writing, they'll have AI in real life." It's bad because: 1) Learning to WRITE well is a primary way people learn to THINK well. There are other ways to learn to think well (e.g., a strong culture of oral debate and rigorous discussion), but that’s largely not how things are set up, so without writing, there’s a vacuum. Until schools change, students are sacrificing learning to think. 2) Normalizing cheating in one d...
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