When handheld calculators were invented, schools around the world didn't stop teaching basic math. Today, a decade or more of most peoples' lives remain occupied with learning math skills that have been easily and cheaply automated for more than half a century. Indeed, with nearly all cellphones featuring a calculator function, you could argue that there has never been a time in human history when basic math skills have been more superfluous. Yet no one seriously argues that basic math should not be taught.
The same is likely to be true for whatever cognitive tasks AI ends up being good for. Of course, in tech circles, a popular tongue-in-cheek definition has long been that AI is "anything that doesn't work yet." But one task it is undoubtedly good for is cheating on written assignments in college.
The thing is that using AI to cheat in college is entirely........