Professors Using AI Need More Administrative Support

[If ChatGPT] can do a job as well as a person, then humans shouldn’t duplicate those abilities; they must surpass them. The next task for higher education, then, is to prepare graduates to make the most effective use of the new tools and to rise above and go beyond their limitations. That means pedagogies that emphasize active and experiential lear

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When it comes to AI, we need to aim higher than the question: “What if you could press a button to generate an essay?” AI can produce infinite amounts of content; quantity is its game. Quality, intention, taste, originality, vision—that’s where we come in.

Dismantling current gen ed requirement to align with a new upstream mission will be hard. First, state boards must put a sunset date on all gen ed credit requirements that measure AI-replicable outcomes, replacing them with requirements focused on knowledge production and validation. Second, accrediting bodies must revise their standards to emphasi... See more

The aims are both to improve the quality of AI-assisted tasks and also to empower users to de-velop their skills and maintain a balanced “relationship” with AI. To address task confidence recalibration, AI tools could incorpo-rate feedback mechanisms that help users gauge the reliability of AI outputs, when to trust the AI and when to apply their c... See more