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Benjamin Riley

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Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans. Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
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“Cheating has become omnipresent. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t used A.I. to get through some assignment in college…In our tech-enabled, newly A.I.-powered world, students were increasingly fudging just about everything.” A very God & Man at Stanford vibe here, but a…

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  • ChatGPT's 2022 debut triggered cascading honor code violations and policy reversals that persisted across all four years of one college cohort.
  • Faculty policy swung between banning and requiring AI tools within single academic years, leaving students unable to follow consistent rules.
  • A documented social rift formed within the Class of 2026 between students who adopted AI tools and those who refused throughout their degree.
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Source document here, just let your eyes glaze over the math equations: cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085...

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This article is surreal from start to finish. The author, a full-throated AI enthusiast who’s written a book titled AI for Good, waits until paragraph 52 of 53 to reveal that Sal Khan & team are basically abandoning the AI-as-tutor model — after Sal declared, in his book, it w…

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  • Khanmigo's Socratic design frustrated students who abandoned sessions when the AI withheld direct answers.
  • Engagement metrics from the Khanmigo rollout did not reliably correlate with measurable learning gains at scale.
  • The retrospective is one of the first systematic evaluations of a flagship AI education deployment, arriving as competitors scale rapidly.
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"The White House is increasingly grappling with backlash to artificial intelligence within Trump’s base, as voters grow concerned the technology could eliminate jobs and increase electric bills." Memo to the Washington Post: by "Trump's base" you actually mean "most Americans."

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Indeed. I recently interviewed @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, an AI researcher for several decades, and she shared some interesting history on this point. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/reflection...

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This is, as best I can tell, not a satirical Dada-ist experiment aimed at revealing the dystopia of an agentic AI future.

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I'm going to call this a win in my battle to ensure comments to my Substack remain exclusively human. BE GONE AI SLOP, DEMONS OUT! (More detail in the alt-text for those curious.)

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