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Friday, 5 June 2026

Universities Should Ban AI Outright

 The Pope is concerned about AI impacting negatively on our humanity; the valuation of Anthropic rises to nearly one trillion dollars. It’s time to come out as an AI Luddite. I’ve worked in education my whole adult life, and it’s education that leads me to this position.

AI’s supporters say that it will make us all – including in education – more productive. A tiny minority of already extremely productive people conceivably could become even more prolific. Most of us will not. Our fate is that AI will make us increasingly lazy and intellectually deformed.

The trend is clear: soon in universities, faculty won’t write syllabi anymore. They won’t set essay questions and examinations. AI is doing much of this already. Soon it will do it all.

In their turn, students won’t be writing essays. At best, they will adapt the work that AI produces, with the sole aim of making it look less like AI has created it. But as AI will be grading the work, they won’t have to worry about even that...<<<Read More>>>...