AI Policy

I research and publish on generative AI, and my concerns with it are less with plagiarism and more with using the tool to avoid boring and repetitive work, so your human brains can focus on higher-order concerns. I'm firmly convinced our faculty, here or nationally, are not preparing you well for a ferociously competitive workplace.

Many of you will lose jobs to automation unless you can add value to AI-produced content. Frankly, ChatGPT 4 writes more interesting and less tenative prose than many of you. If I were a CEO, I'd hire it first: it will not get sick, have personal crises, or complain about the job. This will be a (perhaps the) critical question in your working lives: How can you add value to AI content? We'll do something about that in this class.

You may use AI for the midterm and final projects, or in short responses if you deem it appropriate. You must, however, cite this work. Here's how to cite AI in your own work, using my modified MLA Format.

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