Harvard dean suggests encouraging AI use in writing courses, sparking pedagogy debate
firasd · x · 2026-09-05
A Harvard dean's email "modestly" suggested professors teaching writing-intensive courses should encourage AI use. Critic Tyler Austin Harper called it end-times moralizing about policing students and damaging "trust".
Commenter firasd argues that, normative debates aside, it's directionally correct: higher ed's "Essay-Industrial complex" has amoeba-like grown for decades, and if LLMs can crank out these essays easily, alternative pedagogical approaches are worth investigating.
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