Colleges Are Going to Have to Put ChatGPT on the Curriculum

A theology professor says generative AI is producing papers that are better than the average student’s.

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In retrospect, my late summer to-do list was laughable. Among 20 other items to accomplish “before the semester begins” was this innocuous bullet point: “Write my AI policy.”

That’s like writing “prepare for storm” while in the eye of the hurricane.