Professor: STEM education now exists to keep students ignorant of AI they'll be judged by
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-11
Rex Douglass argues that educational institutions today effectively ensure students learn nothing about the technologies—AI above all—by which they will be judged for the rest of their lives, framing STEM education as preserving "purity against heresy." The post is a pointed critique of academia's resistance to teaching generative AI literacy.
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