This is especially true with the big push in the 2010s and during the pandemic for online education. Online education has been a godsend for those who are not served well by in-person education. Unfortunately, AI is completely undermining online asynchronous education since we can no longer reliably equate deliverables with genuine learning. Even in-person assessments have to be modified to deal with AI.

Generative AI has caused a lot of stress as a computer science professor at a community college, where I teach introductory courses in programming, data structures, and discrete math. I’m not anti-AI, but there are days as a professor where I curse the existence of ChatGPT due to cheating students turning in obvious slop.