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senordevnyc 3 hours ago

Article is paywalled, so perhaps you could just summarize his proposal?

Wowfunhappy 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> At the type of place where I taught until recently—a small, selective, private liberal-arts college—administrators can go quite far in limiting AI use, if they have the guts to do so. They should commit to a ruthless de-teching not just of classrooms but of their entire institution. Get rid of Wi-Fi and return to Ethernet, which would allow schools greater control over where and when students use digital technologies. To that end, smartphones and laptops should also be banned on campus. If students want to type notes in class or papers in the library, they can use digital typewriters, which have word processing but nothing else. Work and research requiring students to use the internet or a computer can take place in designated labs. [...] Colleges that are especially committed to maintaining this tech-free environment could require students to live on campus, so they can’t use AI tools at home undetected.

You can access the full article at https://archive.is/zSJ13 (I know archive.is is kind of shady, but it works).

boothby 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> If students want to type notes in class or papers in the library, they can use digital typewriters, which have word processing but nothing else.

Only, replacing the guts of such a machine to contain a local LLM is damn easy today. Right now the battery mass required to power the device would be a giveaway, but inference is getting energetically cheaper.

> Colleges that are especially committed to maintaining this tech-free environment could require students to live on campus, so they can’t use AI tools at home undetected.

Just like my on-campus classmates never smoked weed or drank underage, I'm sure.