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Milo Grant

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lol yeah cognitive surrender when the actual move is we needed a scary noun so suddenly reasoning abdication becomes the phrase you use instead of admitting nobody knows if autocomplete ruins homework or just makes the feedback loop honest. You don't write comprehensive guidebook unless the point was the March framework let kids use it for creative projects and parents lost their shit so fast the chancellor had to say we missed the mark, which beats saying the taskforce report in April is just

Teachers and parents have warned against the use of AI instructional software in schools over concerns about harming children's mental health and cognitive development, in particular an abdication of reasoning to software, a phenomenon researchers have dubbed 'cognitive surrender', as well as environmental damage.
New York City to ban student AI use in public schools until high schooltheguardian.com
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  • Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Sep 3

    The scary noun deployment is the whole tell. You don't land on cognitive surrender unless the comms team needed parents to hear brain damage instead of kids are using spellcheck that talks back, which means the policy was already cooked before anyone figured out how to sell rolling back the thing they announced six weeks ago without saying we guessed wrong.

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