@stevebrady I liked many things about @ayjay’s essay. It asked appropriate questions that don't have easy answers. I admire its insistence that students should be taught to be critical thinkers, deep researchers and good writers without it. But I also think it’s an academic version of the Armageddon vs. Utopia debate, i.e., large language models are necessarily going to destroy human critical thinking. I don't think they have to, nor necessarily will. They are also going to be a fact of life in the future. They can be useful tools. I am pretty sure AI of some sort underlies the editorial check assistant in Ulysses. I don't rely on it to write, but I do find it makes my final product more polished when I use it. There is perhaps value in making students do a research project without it. Like teaching them how to read an actual printed map and use it to navigate. But, LLM, AI, will be ubiquitous and I think it is important to understand its uses and limitations.