Economist mocks op-eds on AI in education: written with the very AI cheating they decry
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-20
Quoting an op-ed arguing that humanities thinking is increasingly urgent in the AI age, economist Paul Novosad points out the irony: the piece appears to be written with the primary undergraduate cheating method — LLMs. His advice to academics preaching "how to make students think": write your own damn op-eds.
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