GoKawiilNature correspondent counters call for AI debate-training, urges AI-free study spaces
Responding to Marc Schmitt's earlier World View essay, which argued universities should have students argue with AI systems so they use them as sparring partners rather than oracles, a new commentary in Nature contends that students instead need spaces free of AI to develop core skills. Schmitt had compared AI's effect on critical thinking to the calculator, predicting skills would become sharper rather than diminished.