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Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure
‘equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRY6M5_mvo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260908-students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure - podcast
time: 4 min 14 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure/ - blog post
@davidgerard Learn how *not* to use AI or you'll get left behind! 😂
So let me get this straight, Management can’t calculate ROI, AI is more expensive than human workers, And human workers dance on AI heads?
But it’s management who’s decided it’s the way to go. Seems to me that the compensation scale of management is just a wee bit overrated.
Also, you know if you get rid of all the human under length who does management have to blame when things go desperately wrong?
@davidgerard "you don't want to be left behind, do you?" being the AI booster taunt makes this extra funny
@davidgerard “one year of schooling” holy shit when I was growing up if you were one year behind your peers they started asking if you were on drugs
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@davidgerard @zzt first of all i believe it is important to state that the OECD itself recognises that these results can't establish causality. secondly it needs to be said that the headline is not only misleading but rejects truth. see this plot from page 140 of the report. OECD puts it like this
> those who reported using AI to help them learn frequently […] tend to slightly outperform their peers
i believe unreflected criticism it to be dangerous and unhealthy