I mean, the guy who invented the most revolutionary communications technology of the 19th century, Samuel Morse, was also an inventor of a batshit conspiracy theory about foreign/Catholic invaders who were about to destroy America. We've been here a long time.
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The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.

Students know they could ask Notebook LLM (which my uni provides for them & encourages them to use) to summarize the reading for them and give them some comments they could make in class. I'm sure some are doing that. But most seem to instinctively resent the idea that a machine could replace them.

I've noticed that most of my students have bought the physical books for my classes and are marking them up more than in the past. Perhaps what they're craving is an experience that a machine can't replicate...the human experience of pleasure, confusion, illumination, etc. that comes w/ reading.

I set aside one class session in each of my classes to read articles about and discuss the impact of AI. One common sentiment I heard was that my students were worried that their younger siblings would simply not learn how to write or think for themselves because they'd let AI do it for them.