[chrisnight]

> If a huge mechanism for assessing folks in education is "write an essay on this" and the teacher then "grades the essay output by the student," that's almost the perfect task where AI can do both ends. Which is pretty much a sign that assessments such as this have low educational impact.

Disagree here. AI can be (theoretically) trained to do any tasks with which it has an IO interface to perform the task. The same goes for humans, they can't inherently prove they "know" the information, they have to show it, via an IO interface (their hands/voice).

As such, any metric for proving human knowledge could be gamed by AI, assuming an environment where AI could be used (i.e. at home). The only places where AI can be controlled is in the classroom, like during exams or in-person activities.

So to conclude activity X has "low impact" because AI can do it, implies that all education at home has low impact, because AI could do it (through a human performing verbatim what it instructs, ignoring any explanation the AI might give).