Dave Goldberg

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

Protestors creating fear in the hearts of Jewish New Yorkers is bad. Fueling rising antisemitism is bad. But not mentioning what they are protesting — an illegal land sale happening inside Park East Synagogue — is misleading at best.

There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently. When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies. Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France. The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it. Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined. And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country. Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews. Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: If you're more frustrated by the idea that I would campaign with Hasan Piker than the idea that we have backstopped a genocide or that we continue to rob people of getting basic healthcare, I think you don't understand morals.

HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers are carrying out a pogrom right now in the village of Jalud in the West Bank, setting homes and cars on fire and injuring three people. This is the third time they have attacked the village tonight.

I’m on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it’s so incredibly frustrating that I’m slowly realizing it’s actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.

Regarding Lebanon and the French proposal: The Israeli position should simply be that "Israel is ready at any time to enter into direct negotiations with Lebanon for a full normalization agreement that will be approved by all (or almost all) the factions in Lebanese parliament. Israel would be happy to assist the Lebanese state through direct security cooperation with the Lebanese Army to implement its sovereignty by dismantling Hezbollah as a foreign and hostile force to both states." The State of Israel should also make clear that it has no need for self-appointed mediators, and that Rosh HaNikra is an excellent place to meet for direct negotiations with the Lebanese (Cyprus is also possible as a convenient meeting place, but there is really no need for French mediation or travel to Paris). The State of Israel should clarify that in light of the failure of past failures, any references to Resolution 1701, UNIFIL, and similar mechanisms (and certainly “ceasefires”) are no longer relevant. Lebanon is a sovereign state, and Israel will deal with it as such. Israel is done with all the game of “Lebanon is a sovereign state, but actually not, and Hezbollah has nothing to do with it.” And so, the State of Israel would be glad to engage in military cooperation with the Lebanese Army – army to army, chief of staff to chief of staff – in order to help Lebanon realize its sovereignty and dismantle Hezbollah, but without UNIFIL or other mechanisms. And yes, this is also an excellent opportunity to say that if any international organization is to operate in Lebanon, it should be the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in order to settle about 150,000 Arabs born in Lebanon who are falsely registered as “Palestine refugees,” with the aim of ending within five years the entire fiction of Palestinian “refugeehood” in Lebanon. Any withdrawal from territory in Lebanon would take place only after the IDF and the Lebanese Army together ensure peace and normalization, and after all the “Palestinian refugees” are settled, so that the sovereign Lebanese state contributes its part to ending this fiction. This would actually be a path to real peace, normalization and Lebanese sovereignty that would allow it to restore its golden days as "Paris of the Levant".