'The Lost, Pitiable Souls' Who Write Their Own Essays

I love this piece from McSweeney's website titled, "How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI". In it, the author Brian Michael Murphy, writes a humorous, ironic essay on the 'reasons why' students and teachers should be using AI to support teaching and learning and basically if they are not doing so, then they are one of 'The Lost'. These lost individuals are the "pitiable souls" who "are still writing their own essays" and who aspire to "write an entire book at some point in their life". I particularly like this paragraph.

"All students, for all assignments, should use ChatGPT to complete each task. Why would you waste your time writing a paper? We now have a tool that can do that for you. And all professors will save massive amounts of time and energy by using ChatGPT to grade all those papers. Isn’t that great? I mean, what an educational revolution."

It reminds me of something I read recently that highlighted the ridiculousness of the introduction of generative AI into education. It went something like this.

If teachers are not very careful, soon we will be using generative AI to create our curriculum, write our lesson plans, deliver the lesson and assess the assignment (which the students have generated using AI.) 

At what point is a human involved in any part of this? Why bother having a teacher at all when AI can do all this for you? Why even bother learning? As Brian writes,

"Matter fact, why even go to college or live in a dorm when you could stay in your mom’s basement for four years, and have ChatGPT complete and upload all of your assignments? It would be so much more efficient than what we’re doing now."