Reddit thread asks: what can schools even do when AI does the homework?
usefulwrong · reddit · 2026-10-21
A viral Reddit post asks what schools are supposed to do now that AI can do homework: a kid photographs a math problem, ChatGPT solves it in ten seconds, the answer gets copied into a notebook, and the teacher grades it. The author calls students "a meat proxy between ChatGPT and the gradebook" and notes agents may soon remove even the copying step. He invokes Feynman's stories about students reciting physics without understanding — except now memorization isn't even required. The post admits imagining a hundred bad endings is easy, but figuring out what to do about it is not.
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