campus AI use
2026-08-03 20:18:25.71013+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I've been thinking about how, with all of the studies suggesting degradation of skills associated with LLM/"AI" use (or not learning the skills to begin with), we're going to see a place where simply being able to converse with a chatbot, even to generate code, is quickly reduced to commodity.
And, of course, I've long been a critic of academia, how it uses techniques that we know are suboptimal for learning, and is inherently abusive.
Anyway, this felt like an "aha" in how these things are coming together:
looking into colleges in the US for my kid and it's grim. very few have any kind of campus-wide policy on AI use, and most of them are jumping on the bandwagon as a great marketing opportunity. I don't think there's any point in going to a liberal arts school if they haven't hardened the curriculum against AI cheating.
if everyone else is using AI to cheat, you can't not do that. your grades determine your scholarships and access to grad school opportunities. unless faculty are deliberately changing their pedagogy and policies to head off AI cheating, **everyone is going to do it** and you're a fool not to do it too. if your objective is learning, I'm sorry, you have to do that somewhere else.