This appears to be the paper Samantha was tasked to respond to. She is a Junior, the class is probably fairly advanced, and the article is not simplistic. Her response is and it seems like she only skimmed the paper to write it.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Anthropology and psychology have been sciences for decades. Not sure when they weren't.

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

You know where I learned safe sex and HIV? Coolio and TLC. No bullshit.

The last time these right wingers took control of any part of Venezuela they funneled $30 billion out of the Treasury and immiserated the country.
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...

My general sense is that my students, like Thoreau, feel overwhelmed by the challenge of just knowing how to be a decent human and to flourish in a world suffused with injustice and indifference. Society is telling them that new technologies will solve all the problems, but the youths are skeptical.

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.