Laughs about AI Abuse Prevention
Miguel Guhlin,
Another Think Coming,
Jan 08, 2025
I think that if I had been presented with an ultimatum on AI like this at the beginning of a doctoral seminar I would have walked out and found something else to do instead. To be clear: this is not because of the professor's position on AI. He can hate it as much as he wants. It's because, as the doctoral level especially, the point isn't to "train you in the scholarly practices of reading large amounts of textual material quickly and effectively, synthesizing and discussing that material accurately and in detail, and then using the methods, insights, theories and approaches of those texts in your own intellectual work." Not that these aren't bad skills to have - I like to think I have them - but if the point is to "find out what my students think about a topic" then the 'training' in question is coming way too late in the process. If I haven't mastered "the process of creation itself" I don't belong in a doctoral seminar, and if my professor assumes I haven't mastered it, then that's a class I don't want to be in.
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