In recent years, I’ve framed AI as cheating in my classes, and made arguments against using it centered on justice, health, and skill attrition. After our campus signed an agreement with OpenAI last month, starting this fall I’ll also pledge that I will never use it for their assignments or grading.
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/