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General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really? I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated

The first challenge is knowing what kind of problems are appropriate for AI assistance and what aren't - under what circumstances are you likely to see hallucinations? Which AI tools can provide real citations and which will just make them up?

Did you know ChatGPT now has two entirely different ways of running Python code? The rules of what those can do are utterly baffling simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/10/...

I don't think students should take classes on how ChatGPT Code Interpreter differs from ChatGPT Canvas - that would be like teaching MS Word specific VB macros in "intro to computers" I do think there's a lot of space for helping teach students how to navigate these utterly weird new AI systems

The fundamental challenge here is that there are key skills - reading, writing, thinking - that students urgently need to develop The temptation to outsource those activities to generative AI will clearly harm the acquisition of those skills - they need to be a slog