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Question Of The Week - Schools in a Stupidogenic Society

This week we recommended Daisy Christodoulou's Are we living in a stupidogenic society?, in which she considers the implications for our intellectual fitness as we offload to ever-more competent machines. Of schools, she argues they should become 'mental gymnasia': "They should be places that allow you to practice and acquire the basic skills that are no longer directly rewarded in daily life, but which are still vital. However, many people have drawn the exact opposite conclusion. They see the development of powerful artificially intelligent thinking machines as an opportunity for students to stop doing the basics, and to “focus on the things that machines can’t do”.

What do Browser readers think? As machines become more competent:

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Schools should be mental gymnasia, and teach us to do the tasks machines do

Schools should drop the basics that machines can do, and focus on the things that machines can't do

Other (please tell us more!)

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