Professors are fighting an uphill battle against the intrusion of AI into education, and it’s forcing them to rethink how they instruct their students, many of whom have already become hopelessly dependent on the tech.
“It’s driving so many of us up the wall,” one told The Guardian in a new piece that interviewed more than a dozen professors in the humanities.
“I now talk about AI with my students...
The article presents a deeply concerning, albeit largely circumstantial, narrative about the potential erosion of human intellect facilitated by the rapid adoption of AI in education. The STEELMAN of this narrative centers on the anxieties of academics—specifically those in the humanities—who perceive a fundamental disruption to established pedagogical models and, more profoundly, to the nature of human thought itself. The core concern isn’t simply cheating, but the subtle yet potentially devast...