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Fault is irrelevant. The question is if students will hurt their education with AI, and they will. Whether they're hurting themselves or being hurt by an unsafe technology is actually a secondary question that doesn't really matter in this instance.
I do not think it is that black and white. Some students may use AI in ways to skip actually learning and “maybe” AI is making that situation worse, but there are for sure other students that are using AI to learn more than they ever have before. Maybe there is a divide developing with those who use to learn and achieve new heights, and those who use it to skip doing things and learning altogether.
What? I said that chatbots can be useful, such as if you used it to explain concepts like how I used to use supplemental lectures. Hardly black-and-white! The danger surrounds students using it as a shortcut to avoid work and to cheat on assignments, and they absolutely will.
Remember, fault is irrelevant. The assumption you seem to have is that a student that uses a chatbot to sabotage their own education deserves it; we should just let this divide emerge between students that ruin their education with chatbots and students that succeed. Basically a sink or swim/survival of the fittest approach to education.
That's a horrible idea. We can't afford to allow students to ruin their education. The vast vast majority of students merely do what is required to get a passing grade, and if getting a passing grade no longer requires learning or understanding anything then they won't bother. That's really bad for them as students, and for society as a whole.
What you're proposing is the collapse of civilization.
We both seem to be reading the replies wrong as I was not proposing. It is just an observation.