[justaguitarist]

I'm a sysadmin for a public school district and the admins are working on rolling out Gemini for students/staff. I've shared all the studies I can find about cognitive decline associated with LLM use, but it seems like it's falling on deaf ears.

[EvanAnderson]

I do contract network admin work for a K-12 school district and I'm hearing the same thing from the in-house sysadmin about his administration staff. The District superintendent is very enthusiastic about getting LLM tools into the hands of the students and teachers. The in-house sysadmin and I are both horrified at what we're enabling.

[Jimmc414]

Respectfully, do you think you are helping K-12 students by withholding exposure to an AI world they will soon be expected to be competitive in?

[Jimmc414]

Could you link some of the more compelling studies you've found? I've only found one major empirical study directly examining cognitive decline from LLM use and there are substantial methodology problems. I've elaborated on the specifics here if you are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118819

[viccis]

This can only end with punitive federal measures. Of course every 80 IQ school superintendent is going to push for whatever tech cuts costs at the expense of the kids' education.

[nunez]

Not surprising if this is in a state that wants to push vouchers.

[kmacleod]

As a district, aren't you also able to work with Google to enable research and educate modes in addition to the "give me the answer" modes?

[justaguitarist]

I believe that's what they are doing. I was removed from the committee after sharing the studies I found so I'm just pushing the buttons they tell me to push at this point.