Bluesky CEO Jay Graber warns: If you’re a student, using AI means …
Bluesky CEO Jay Garber has issued an important warning to students who are using AI tools for completing their academic work. Garber said that doing so, students may be inadvertently contributing to their own obsolescence. Talking to Business Insider, Garber said that while AI tools might offer shortcuts but relying on them completely will affect your learning process and development of critical skills. Garber’s warning comes at a time when students are heavily relying on AI tools for the completion of their school and university assignments. While some educators embrace AI as a learning aid, others worry it may undermine academic integrity and long-term skill building.
AI and Education
In an interview with Business Insider, Garber emphasised that for students the act of solving problems is of utmost importance and delegating that task to AI will hamper their capabilities. “AI is able to automate a lot of critical-reasoning tasks, and if we fully outsource our own reasoning, it’s actually not good enough to run in an automated fashion,” Garber told BI.Garber also mentioned that over-relying on AI tools could hinder students’ ability to think critically, solve problems independently, and develop their own unique voice and understanding. The Bluesky CEO added that if students are given a task of writing an essay by hand, then the whole idea behind the exercise is to help them develop critical thinking skills and the keep it growing. “You can’t just fully outsource your thinking, or an essay, to AI,” added Garber.She added that at Bluekey AI is used for moderation and content curation—but never without human review. “When you let it run autonomously, it doesn’t have actual context or intelligence,” Graber explained. “It produces stuff that sounds or looks right without actually being right.”She emphasised that human intervention and judgement is really important to ensure the quality and context.
Generalist skills in an AI world
The Bluesky CEO has also urged the students and job seekers to adopt a generalist mindset. She argues that the ability to synthesize and apply knowledge across multiple disciplines is more important than just focusing on a particular specialisation.“You need to have the good judgment of how you’re going to use it, and then you have to have the flexibility to take that knowledge and do something useful with it,” she said.She adds that AI can assist in tasks like writing and coding, but still the foundational skills remain critical. “If you don’t know what good code looks like, if you don’t know how to actually build a system, you’re not going to be able to evaluate its output,” she added.
