Some interesting responses to Natasha Singer’s article, “As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns“, in
the Letters to the Editor section today:

“With the proliferation of A.I. tools and the push for their adoption in schools, there has never been a greater need to underscore the need for the “soft skills” of social and emotional learning, which are actually some of the hardest skills to teach.”
—Matt Levinson

And:

After decades teaching English, I have learned that every new technology provokes the same fear: that students will stop thinking. In practice, thinking shifts. When A.I. generates language effortlessly, the educational task becomes evaluation rather than production.

In my classes, I use a method I call reading against the machine. Students interpret texts on their own before consulting A.I.-generated readings, which they then critique. Where the machine clarifies, it earns trust; where it flattens ambiguity or misses irony, students see what human judgment uniquely provides.

— Carmine Giordano