#8 - The Great Educational Regression: How AI Turned America’s Classrooms Into 1950s Time Capsules

In a stunning victory for analog technology, the humble blue book has emerged as education’s unlikely savior against the AI apocalypse

The year is 2025, and America’s educational institutions have officially surrendered to their new silicon AI overlords. In a move that would make Don Draper weep with nostalgic pride, schools across the US (and sooner everywhere else around the world) are dusting off their blue books—those sacred, lined examination booklets that once struck fear into the hearts of students who actually had to, you know, think.

The catalyst for this analog renaissance? An epidemic of AI cheating so pervasive that it makes the 1919 Black Sox scandal look like a minor etiquette breach. Students have become so dependent on artificial intelligence that many can no longer distinguish between their own thoughts and those of their digital ai homework assistants. One educator reported discovering a student who had submitted an essay that began with “As an AI language model, I cannot have personal opinions, but here’s my analysis of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship dynamics.”

Source: TechOnion

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