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My first semester of college was in the fall of 2005. One of the courses I took that semester was titled Western Civilization. Basically a repeat of high school World History, "white people evolved and did everything, and some other people were around I guess" kind of stuff. We get a couple weeks into the semester when the teacher just...stops showing up. We walk in to find "Read Chapters 1-3 in your textbook" written on the board. He's gone for over a month, occasionally there's a substitute who has no fucking idea what's going on, I think they got someone from Financial Aid or the Registrar's office to walk in and tell us to read chapters of the book in person. Practically no attempt to teach this class was made. Turns out, the professor was on some kind of emergency response team that got deployed to the gulf coast in aid of Katrina/Rita.
He gets back for the second half of the semester, and the way he reviewed for tests was "One: A. Two: C. Three: C. Four: B."
This is what you're afraid of automating away.
You know the really sick thing? I had to earn a flight instructor certificate before I realized what a piss poor state our schools are in.
To work with the "robots can't eat your dinner for you" analogy, what you're doing here is you're saying you went to a bad restaurant once therefore people shouldn't bother cooking.
Look, I gave a single example out of brevity. I did ten semesters of college, every essay I've turned in was graded on formatting, punctuation, grammar, spelling and not factual accuracy, validity of research or strength of conclusions. Because doing that stuff is hard.
Multiple choice or short answer tests are easy to cram for and easy to grade. Basing curricula around them encourages cram-and-dump study methods that don't encourage actual long-term learning. You end up with students who can do high level calculus or discuss the lasting ramifications of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo for a week or two. If AI makes it impossible to pretend we're teaching students this way anymore, so much the better.