AI ‘blind spots’ the biggest threat to universities

The flip side is unis jumping on a bandwagon before it is even clear what the destination is or whether it is road-worthy. You should equally ask are you preparing your students for a future where any use of "AI" is heavily regulate or even curtailed As for use of AI in analysing student performance and risk . Exam boards have managed to do that with nothing more sophisticated than sheets of paper showing performance in all years and activities beyond the numerical data such a process also allows professionals to bring contextual data on circumstances that have affected students a capability still beyond "AI". If its not broken don't fix it.

To DJ Duke at Leeds, I am a recovering Luddite but even I can see that AI might have many positive uses. I think we might risk a rickety ride for a few years (?months) to get the measure of what AI can bring to education and broader society. Don't forget that "without vision we perish". BW

I encourage my students to use AI in their research, even in class. Students find that AI does not always help them with critical thinking, so we go back to the first principles of critical thinking and the class discussions are more engaged. We also see if students can spot AI generated work. Fun!

This piece has a very AI generated feel to it. I think it is missing the bigger elephant herd in the room of AI in society as a whole. Employees of many graduates will also/are currently using AI to fulfil the roles that would be normally be carried out by those with some modest HE training. We need to get our current charges to put their organic thinking caps on to have a jolly good think about what kind of society they want to live in.