This is extremely disappointing. The entire text cites opposition and counterpoints but in general wants to integrate "AI" into the curriculum.

Why didn't they abbreviate to:

"MIT is an industry whore, we will bend over to the highest paying donor."

No surprise that Epstein thrived there as a donor.

This is a bunch of fluff. I hope at least the snacks and lunches during the discussions were good.

"Guiding principles: Be bold. Be humble. Put humanity front and center. Lean into learning. Teach with intentionality. No one size fits all."

"Recommendations: Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world. Center people, community, and the residential experience. Build processes, teams and tools for continuous reflection, iteration, and improvement"

"Be bold" by saying nothing of any interest. I have to agree that this is basically just fluff.

Anyone put it into pangram yet?

I think this has been going on well before AI or LLMs: "A fundamental danger, as we’ve discussed, is that AI can allow students to bypass learning. Equally concerning is that students may internalize a transactional model in which assignments are outputs, teachers are evaluators, peers are optional, and knowledge (or an MIT degree) is an optimizable commodity to be acquired or produced as efficiently as possible."

Education is so cooked. In 10 years, people arent going to find it useful financially. The AI will be better at economically relevant thinking.

And there aren't enough hobbyist learners to sustain education at its current level.

You can think what you like about MIT, but at least they're giving it some thought, however perfunctory it may seem. Many German universities prefer to try and ignore the issue and hope for the best.