Commentary
For college teachers whose instruction is all about reading and writing, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is a disaster. They’ve never faced a challenge like this before. They assign novels, plays, artworks, treatises, and historical tracts, but students don’t have to study them anymore, not carefully. When AI can provide a handy summary of the books that the student can regurgitate more or less sufficiently on the midterm, why read them in full? If short essays and research papers are required and AI can produce them with but a few tailored requests from the kids, why write those pages themselves, especially as AI gets better and better at disguising its involvement?
