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Harvard faculty oppose AI writing courses

Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson

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““Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be integrated into ‘writing-intensive’ courses.””

“Good pushback from Harvard faculty against the dean who doesn't understand learning. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 3d ago
Harvard writing tutor AI education critique

I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson

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“The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www…”

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John Warner: The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating fr…
Benjamin Riley: The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating fr…
Benjamin Riley: I would not have predicted we’d see more encouraging resistance to AI intrusion into higher education from U Chicago and MIT than we are seeing from Harvard. But then, my predictions are often wrong.
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Students cheating ai

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“"A way to help more students develop a moral compass is to make ethics part of their curriculum." By @adamgrant.bsky.social I'd add: Cheaters forever live in fear and risk of being caught, and they miss out on the satisfaction of true achievement. www.nytim…”

“I'm a strong believer in including experiences that require students to grapple with ethics/morals of a discipline as part of a course. I've done it in every course I've ever taught, but the idea that improved moral formation will prevent "cheating" is simp…”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 16d ago
writing classes AI production debate essay

Writing Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided Production

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“I suppose this is my manifesto on the subject that writing is writing and AI-assisted or automated document production is something else. Harvard appears to believe that AI automation is an inevitable future. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...”

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4 experts · 22 posts · 16d ago
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: It’s important to me that my writing is *my* voice—warts and all. But I’m also not sure you can build a research discipline where the chief difference between an A paper and a C paper is “does this…
Ted Underwood: So I think a lot of debates about “whether to allow AI in writing classes” are fighting over the wrong part. We should be talking about how the nature of research in various disciplines can expand …
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3 experts · 24 posts · 13d ago
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
John Warner: Thinking about what I see as a contradiction lately. I think it's pretty clear that AI has advanced quite a lot in terms of its capabilities and reliability since the arrival of Chat GPT, and yet, …
John Warner: ...I'd have almost no use for it. I've had people demonstrate a number of different AI agentic capacities, suggesting I might benefit from something similar and my response thus far is, I don't thi…
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2 experts · 9 posts · 10d ago
John Warner: We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.
John Warner: The bad human stuff is "crap." Fully automated AI outputs are slop.
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2 experts · 6 posts · 9d ago
John Warner: Dealt with two "digital assistants" over the phone today (HVAC & dentist) and I will admit that the process was reasonably efficient, but I also hated it and the experiences put me on edge. They an…
John Warner: One business is "open" the other is closed. I have more sympathy to the closed business using the technology when they're closed. It's substituting for voice mail. The open business (HVAC) though, …
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