istory teacher Susan Petrie "testified that the revision history showed that RNH had only spent approximately 52 minutes in the document, whereas other students spent between seven and nine hours.

see what support faculty need to make these judgments about where they want to adopt AI or maybe where they want to refuse it.”

And if institutions expect to be environments where scholars grapple with the more existential questions generative AI poses—such as the value of art or writing produced by a machine—they’ll have to start by acknowledging that AI is changing education.

Having professors who are transparent about how they want students to use AI “encourages students a lot more to only use it how they’ve instructed,” she said.

So this fall, he plans to scrap many of his writing assignments, including the experiential-learning one that was once so meaningful to many of his students. “Because of those people at the bottom of the scale making it impossible for me to do my work,” he says of AI users, “all those people at the upper end of the scale will never have that good experience.” Some of those better students might even have chosen to become religious-studies majors.