“The likely outcome here? College students from here on out will get little from their educations, professors will be overwhelmed, unable to adapt to the scale of what would be required to do individualized education with budgets that don’t really support that, and the Sam Altmans of the world will laugh their way to the bank.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
The likely outcome is that from here on out college students will get little from their educations, professors will be overwhelmed and unable to adapt to the scale required for individualized education on budgets that don't really support it, and the Sam Altmans of the world will laugh their way to the bank.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, ”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs?, paragraph 16.
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- Kind
- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “from here on out”
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
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Conditions
- with budgets that don't really support individualized education (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- with budgets that don't really support individualized education
- from here on out
Our interpretation
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
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- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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: Marcus on AI, ”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs?
The likely outcome here? College students from here on out will get little from their educations, professors will be overwhelmed, unable to adapt to the scale of what would be required to do individualized education with budgets that don’t really support that, and the Sam Altmans of the world will laugh their way to the bank.
- Where
- paragraph 16
- Published
- 2025-05-08
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
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- Assessment marcus-everyone-is-cheating-their-way-through-4e57e4-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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