Harvard University professor Alex Green thinks that AI is robbing students of their ability to think and that universities should crack down harder:
More than half the nonnative English-speaking students and a notable number of native English speakers told me that after relying on AI to draft their papers and emails, their ability to write, speak and conduct basic inquiry is slipping away. They tell me this as if they have done something wrong, never considering that it is their professors, not they, who should carry that burden. ... There is little evidence that senior university faculty are committed to tamping down the rampant overuse of AI. Instead, it is the paperweight on a pile of evidence that at an ethical level, universities are too timid or ignorant to insist that students use the core skills we are supposed to be teaching them.
What do stackers think? This is a live issue at colleges all over the country.
My stance so far has been that AI is inevitable and impossible to police effectively, thus de facto putting me on the "embrace" side. I'd love if we could somehow build an AI-free educational environment, at least until certain skills are demonstrably acquired. I just don't think it's possible, and that AI is going to change the way everyone thinks and works, so the best thing to do is to prepare students for this brave new world.