"When we bypass the cognitive journey of synthesis and critical evaluation, we're not just losing skills," she said. "We're changing our epistemological relationship with knowledge itself."
"This affects job prospects not through reduced ability, but through a shifted cognitive framework where validation and creation of knowledge increasingly depend on AI mediation rather than human judgment," she said."
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly integrated into classrooms, shifting who controls access to and validation of knowledge. Anthropic data from roughly one million student conversations in April shows 39.3% involved creating or polishing educational content and 33.5% asked chatbots to solve assignments directly. Students are outsourcing cognitive processes of synthesis and critical evaluation to algorithmic systems, altering how answers are judged and what counts as valid knowledge. This shift risks an atrophy of epistemic vigilance and may change job-market readiness by replacing human judgment with AI-mediated validation. Institutional responses remain focused on plagiarism and grading rather than deeper epistemic consequences.
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