Harvard's Jill Lepore uses AI in research but says colleges fail students by accepting machine-written work
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-13
Jill Lepore, staff writer at The New Yorker and Harvard professor, says she uses AI in her own research and sees real promise in it. But in a Chronicle interview she argues higher education is failing students if it treats machine-written work as education — drawing a line between AI as a research tool and AI as a substitute for learning.
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