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• @tab_delete Theo Baker on x

  ChatGPT arrived on campus two months after we did. Now, as this graduating college class of 2026 approaches commencement, A.I. has already permanently changed how we think and behave. We were the experiment. My essay in @nytopinion Sunday Review: [image]

• @krisabdelmessih Kris on x

  AI has accelerated the already-in-motion transition of “is this going to be on the test?” to “how does this get me paid?” school is so expensive directly and in the prep to get in that this all makes sense.

• @yisuzhou Yisu Zhou on x

  “The money is a big part of it. A.I. has merely accelerated a trend that was already underway at Stanford and has been reflected by many of the country's most corporatized universities: Education itself can be seen as a secondary goal to enabling future success, frequently

• @juliasteinberg Julia Steinberg on x

  Highlight of my Stanford experience was watching someone ask ChatGPT “summarize Hegel in three bulletpoints” during lecture in the winter of 2023.

• @annanemtsova Anna Nemtsova on x

  “AI is everything,"@tab_delete says in his @NYT opinion piece."Nearly all of higher education has been overtaken by this technology,and Stanford is a case study in how far it can go. For the past four years, my classmates and I have been the subjects of a high-stakes experiment."

• @petertl Peter Thal Larsen on bluesky

  Of all the ways AI has affected the latest batch of Stanford graduates, this feels the most corrosive. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o... By @tab-delete.bsky.social.  [image]

• @jtlg James Grimmelmann on bluesky

  The chef's kiss in this essay about how ambition is destroying education at Stanford is the note at the end, where we learn that the author, a Stanford senior, has a forthcoming book on the subject.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

• @henryhenryhenry.com Colin M. Henry on bluesky

  can the hugely important conversation on the erosion of trust & AI really be delivered by uber nepo baby Theo Baker? for students facing declining social mobility, using AI for homework probably doesn't feel any less fraudulent than being born to media aristocracy  —  www.nytimes…

• @mikeelgan Mike Elgan on bluesky

  Observation of the moment (at Stanford University, the third highest-ranked university in the world): “Cheating has become omnipresent.  I don't know a single person who hasn't used A.I. to get through some assignment in college.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

• @tab_delete Theo Baker on x

  Big thank you to @anandwrites for this amazing review of HOW TO RULE THE WORLD! “This may not be a world you want to know about, but it is one you need to know about, because it is deciding about your life, even if you have limited power to decide about it,” he writes.

• @anandwrites @anandwrites on x

  Theo Baker just wanted to go to college. He ended up at the rapacious, awkward center of the world, where a rising dweebocracy is plotting to rule, a new Wall Street but in Silicon Valley, with more pimples and less eye contact. My review of @tab_delete:

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  A Stanford student talks about how rampant using AI to cheat is at the college.  —  This is on rationale for reduced hiring of entry level workers.  —  If white collar jobs have become primarily reviewing the work of AI, why hire people who never learned how to do the work?

• Sherry Pagoto Sherry Pagoto on linkedin

  Whenever I tell someone how pervasive AI use is among college students a common response is ‘yeah, yeah, yeah cheating was always a thing.’ True …

• Patrick Wheeler Patrick Wheeler on linkedin

  The below op-ed written by a Stanford senior is worth a deep read.  —  My work at Dartmouth (a peer school of Stanford) …