Gary Marcus amplifies Atlantic piece: AI reliance is teaching students 'a knack for cutting corners'
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-02
Gary Marcus reshares a piece from The Atlantic in which author James Prollert argues that college students' growing reliance on AI is teaching them "a knack for cutting corners, a disdain for community rules, and an assumption that a spirit of integrity, and the sacrifices it assumes, is the reserve of suckers and wimps." The article examines AI's erosion of academic integrity and students' attitudes toward learning.
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