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Is AI the biggest change in education since the printing press? Yes. This weekend, I decided to learn about the life and work of Erving Goffman purely out of personal interest. Goffman was one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century and a professor at Penn. I had a few free hours after a tough week of travel and work, and thought it might be a good distraction. I asked Claude to prepare a study plan based on my professional background, prior knowledge, and the hours I had available: an introduction to Goffman’s life and work, selections from his best and most influential writings, and an examination of his impact on social theory. The plan was outstanding. A top expert on Goffman would likely have done better. A 90th percentile real professor of sociology would not have, or at least not without serious effort. As I read The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (complete) and Asylums and Stigma (selections), I could ask Claude for clarification, connections to the wider literature, and links to material I already knew. The Q&A and the exploration of collateral ideas were so good that I ended up spending much more time than I anticipated. Last night I had to force myself to go to bed. Did Claude get everything right? Perhaps not, but neither do I in my own graduate seminars. Even in my areas of top expertise, I often do not answer students’ questions precisely or correctly. One should not compare Claude to the perfect professor but to a real one. And every answer I could verify (I checked many) was at least a solid A-. Am I an expert on Goffman now? Of course not. But I would say I am now familiar with an important thinker at the level a regular master’s course on modern sociological theory would produce in the week it dedicates to him. Doing the same work using Google alone would have taken much longer. I know because I have undertaken similar projects with other thinkers in the past. One had to spend considerably more time before reaching the core of the contribution. I can now imagine someone designing self-learning courses in many fields that are better than what you can get outside the very top universities, at close to zero marginal cost. Where does that leave a normal university? I do not know. But colleagues in departments that want to stop the spread of AI are deluding themselves. This type of technology does not come once a century. It comes once a millennium.

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lo cateto (e ignorante) que es pensar que por meter a tus hijos en la privada van a recibir mejor educación…..

Ya sé que sois muy jóvenes, pero hubo una época en la que en Europa vivíamos de otra manera. No hablábamos a diario de violaciones ni de apuñalamientos. No tenías que sacar líquidos ni pasar controles casi militares para subir a un avión. No veíamos atentados terroristas en nuestras ciudades, ni coches atropellando multitudes en mercados navideños, ni estaciones evacuadas por amenazas. No era habitual ver burkas en las calles ni debatir sobre comida halal en colegios. Y, sobre todo, no vivíamos con ese nivel de alerta permanente ni con miedo a conciertos, celebraciones o grandes concentraciones. Ya sé que suena a bulo. Pero no lo es.