How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education

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Hello, and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil I Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas. and other problems. We've talked a lot about generative AI on the show lately, which is a very big idea that is causing quite a few problems. And one thing we keep hearing about over and over again is that generative AI is causing a lot of problems in schools.

There are a lot of people out there, including many of the listeners of this show who email us, who are worried about the obvious problem, students using ChatGPT to cheat on assignments. But when our team went and poked at the story, they found that the issues in education with AI go a lot deeper, to the very philosophy of education itself. We sat down and talked to a lot of teachers. You'll hear a lot of their voices throughout this episode, and we kept hearing a common theme. What are we even doing here?

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