Sounds great in theory, unfortunately I fear that greed and FOMO will trump any effort to put boundaries in place.

Hopefully the bubble bursts before we get to this point and the trough of disillusionment slows things down a bit, giving us a chance to catch up.

As soon as Trump finds a contractor willing to paint the craters American Flag Blue (with gold trim around the edges), he works out how to grift off it and he gets told his name will be on the base he will be right onto it. In fact, I reckon he'll be able to post on the socials at least 15 times between now and the end of the year that he has already won the race.

I get the analogy and agree with it to a large extent. What worries me however is that with a tool such as a calculator you still need to think about the steps involved. The calculator really just does the final bit of the processing. With AI it is the other way around, instead of just doing the last bit of grunt work you only need to ask the question and it does the rest. With a calculator a certain degree of thinking is still required. With AI it is possible to remove all need for thinking (and students will happily take to that).

I get what she is saying and can appreciate that if AI is used "properly" in an "ideal world" then yes I can see how it could be beneficial for learning. The unfortunate reality however is that this is not going to happen and it's not really just a matter of "well you're just not using / managing it right in the class and if you do then all the negatives will dissapear and all the positives will shine through".
Students will inevitably be lazy and use it to replace their thinking and the more they do, the more their thinking deteriorates and the more they "need" it to do their work (same thing happening to teachers too). Now this is great from the point of view of the AI providers. Having a future population that has become dependent on AI for even basic things is the perfect business model for them. I can also see that people use it at work and think it's great so it is an easy sell to convince them that their kids should be learning how to use it at school.
I fear that we are going to get a lot of "experts" tellling us over the next few years that AI really does need to be taught and incorporated more into education and all the wonderful benefits it will bring and unfortunately it will end up being a detriment to society however so many people will be so hooked that they don't even notice.

They have a solution to this too. I'm sure in the near future they will introduce a new state law banning the sea from rising.
There will also be a subclause that should a local government break this law then they must rectify it exclusively through solutions that involve fossil fuels.
There you go, problem solved.

1. This extra time is just that we are new to this. As we get more experience and better at it (in conjunction with the tools improving) the time taken will decrease.

2. This extra time is just par for the course (as the last sentence in the summary seems to hint at, though no explanation as to why which it would have been good to see) and once increases in price for tokens over time are factored in it will cost the same amount (or more) for the same output (however now you are also seeing the hidden cost in that the employee is slowly losing their experience / skill at doing the job)

It appears to me that both possibilities could be just as likely and only time will tell.

There's a lot I'm probably missing but it seems to me that as Bitcoin only has value in so much as people believe it has value then once it starts falling past a certain amount it can only plummet from there.
The more it drops the more people freak out and sell and the more people sell the more people lose interest and so on. The more this happens it becomes virtually impossible to draw in new people to invest so the ability to prop it up disappears.
I'm sure the whales will push Trump to try and do something to prop it up long enough for them to get out unscathed but it does seem that we are nearing a tipping point (especially as all the interest / money / equipment is moving to AI, which funnily enough also looks like it could be not far off bursting)

Given the money involved, the combination of Bitcoin plummeting and AI bursting with Trump in charge of the economy could lead to some interesting times.

A lot of the tech titans CEO's were present and sucking up to Trump in the early days, no doubt hoping to gain some benefit from his influence.
Now they must be kicking themselves. If this continues it will actually snowball. European governments moving away from US tech will probably be a financial hit in the $millions. But if flows on. Some employees will like the alternatives / get used to them and start using them at home, other companies that interact with the European governments will slowly switch over too to make interaction easier. All this extra revenue and publicity for European and open source products will help them in growing and improving. As they get better, more people will be enticed to switch. And so it continues...
And once the momentum starts, even after Trump has left, the shift away from US tech will continue.
These companies now stand to lose many $billions in the long term and also the crucial part which is their status as the gatekeepers of tech.

Whilst they probably would like as many viewers as possible, they probably have other goals in mind.
I'm guessing that merchandise sales and leading people to take up Disney+ subscriptions is the main goal and I'd be interested to see what their numbers are for both of those. It could be surprisingly good or it could be similarly lackluster.

If AI is going to take all our jobs anyway and none of us will have any money then what does it matter?

But surely the finance companies can deploy AI warriors to guard their systems.
And then we can have Hollywood come in and make a movie about it. I can't wait to see the movies about battalions of AI guardians taking on hordes of AI hackers. The whole movie created by AI.
AI is the future, yeah!!

Step 1 : Aggressively push AI content, reducing traffic to many websites, to the point that they go out of business. (Many being replaced by AI slop)
Step 2 : ????
Step 3 : Say that you are now going to link to those websites in your AI summaries. (profit)

I wonder if a contributing factor to it being that low is that social media has contributed to the lack of attention, focus and creativity in a reasonable chunk of said youngens.

Would be interesting to discover that social media itself turned out to be a contributing factor in the effectiveness of the social media ban.

My guess is that the people putting this out know this perfectly well. What they are trying to do is put out propaganda to sway public sentiment that the system is not working and should therefore be scrapped. I suspect this content is being funded indirectly by the social media companies.

My fear is that the people putting this out are going to be somewhat successful in their endevours.