I teach at Harvard and encourage my students to use AI on every assignment. They just have to follow my ground rules.

The author is a professor at Harvard and allows for AI in the classroom.

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• As a professor at Harvard, I encourage my students to use AI on every assignment.
• My students can use AI as a research tool and editor, but AI cannot do the thinking for them.
• I teach my students how to use AI to make better arguments, and that's where the use should stop.

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed.