#I am thinking about developing a short neutral statement to include in workshops etc

[whentherewerebicycles]

everyone at my institution is so, SO all-in on AI. I was just in a meeting where they discussed the results of a faculty survey that indicated that 75% of faculty are either already using AI in their classrooms or intend to and only 25% say they don’t intend to. this wasn’t a campus-wide survey just of a particular subset of faculty from multiple departments so idk need a larger sample size. but I can say that it certainly FEELS like a 75/25 split in terms of how gung-ho everyone is about AI in meetings, workshops, etc. I kind of feel like I’m losing my mind… like literally what are we doing here? we are an institution of higher learning and we’re all just enthusiastically on board with using these tools that will almost inevitably circumvent learning and supercharge cheating? and the total lack of any university- or even team-wide policies on the use of AI in our work means it’s truly just the wild wild west out there. I’m really trying not to be a huge snob about this I’m trying to keep an open mind but like. I feel like what worries me most is the rhetoric of speed, urgency, and inevitability—we HAVE to learn these tools and we MUST start using them right this second lest we fall behind and there is NO time to pause and reflect deeply on what’s gained vs. what’s lost and also the future is already 100% fixed we have no control over these tools and no agency this is the One Path and we must all hurtle down it.