Super clickbait title, so in case you just want the conclusion here it is: "To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
But to anyone that might want stop at the title and the tl;dr, i highly recommend to take some time and read the article. It is a well written short story that talks about delegating critical thinking and problem solving to a cheap cop-out and philosophize about the disruptive effects of the technology for students.
And it has some memorable parts, like "The essays produced by ChatGPT, for instance, are soulless, boring abominations. Words, phrases and punctuation rarely used by the average college student — or anyone for that matter (em dash included) — are pervasive."
I don't know... I tried it in high school when I was bullied and it was not very effective. Though the one time I punched back one of them (quite ineffectively I must say, as I was way weaker then my counterpart) he indeed stopped bullying and we actually became almost friends in the end.
I know, it's an anecdote (one single instance in one single life) and you cannot translate easily high school dynamics with geopolitical ones, but sometimes it's possible to draw parallelism...
And from the voice of Lenin himself (used in a different context by him, but it works very well in this case for modern Russia): "You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw". If you find yourself at the other end of a bayonet, you better be wearing steel than going naked.