Ben Horowitz: don't ban AI in class — assign problems that need it
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-24
Citing Stanford cryptography professor Dan Boneh, Ben Horowitz argues educators should set problems so hard students can't solve without AI — enabling breakthroughs no student in history could achieve. Paul Novosad agrees and suggests sending such assignments to METR for evaluation.
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