‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thought in an age of AI

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large Lea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting with ways to get her students to learn offline. She has them memorize poems, perform at recitation events, look at art in the real world. It’s an effort to reconnect them to the bodily experience of learning, she said, and to keep them from turning to artificial intelligence to do the work for them...

By Alice Speri