{"id":1982,"date":"2025-01-22T18:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/sb-ols\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:34:18","slug":"how-genai-is-forcing-an-inevitable-ability-efficiency-trade-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/sb-ols\/how-genai-is-forcing-an-inevitable-ability-efficiency-trade-off\/","title":{"rendered":"How GenAI is Forcing an Inevitable Ability\/Efficiency Trade-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While AI raises plenty of unanswered questions, one certainty is that specific human abilities are about to be forfeited en masse in exchange for some efficiency.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The education world is at a crucial crossroads. The advent of GenAI seems to have occurred only a moment ago, yet the movement has already produced a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/ai-may-ruin-the-university-as-we-know-it\">crisis in higher education<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/technology\/los-angeles-unifieds-ai-meltdown-5-ways-districts-can-avoid-the-same-mistakes\/2024\/07\">a meltdown in at least one K12 district<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/03\/ai-race-drives-down-stock-market-valuations-of-education-firms\">significant ongoing disruption<\/a>&nbsp;in the ed tech space that few firms are truly prepared to grapple with. This innovation is just too new and moving too fast.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the halls of academia, the prevalence of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2024\/07\/29\/students-and-professors-expect-more\">pearl clutching<\/a>&nbsp;has significantly increased, while student usage of GenAI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/technology\/opinion-the-ai-cheating-crisis-education-needs-its-anti-doping-movement\/2024\/02\">including for cheating<\/a>) has been dramatically&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2023\/10\/31\/most-students-outrunning-faculty-ai-use\">outpacing usage by the&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2023\/10\/31\/most-students-outrunning-faculty-ai-use\">faculty<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2023\/10\/31\/most-students-outrunning-faculty-ai-use\">.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All that to say, the question looming over all of us remains: What does the future hold?<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evolllution.com\/how-genai-is-forcing-an-inevitable-ability\/efficiency-trade-off?utm_campaign=Evo%20%7C%20EvoLLLution%20Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9_Ux-UuTbkNME4lODcbjK-bjGvgLlGVN0vb30Ds0CDTJmQYvANvHbvGs3y8jadgmgg5d3DPVY1XhssQh6kxIuuwxZi_Q&amp;_hsmi=342956919&amp;utm_content=342956919&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While AI raises plenty of unanswered questions, one certainty is that specific human abilities are about to be forfeited en masse in exchange for some efficiency.&nbsp;&nbsp; The education world is at a crucial crossroads. 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