New Yorker Article: AI Cheating is Destroying Professors' Hope in Education
_akpiper · x · 2026-08-09
The New Yorker recently published a column exploring how professors across the US are changing their teaching approaches and losing hope as more students use AI to complete assignments.
The article collects testimonials from 12 faculty members. One history professor described his emotional response as somewhere between "disgust and despair," questioning, "Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?"
The tweet's author criticized the media for recycling "professor despair" narratives every few months, calling nostalgia the laziest emotion and implying the need for more proactive responses.
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