Teaching Students to Fly With AI, Not Around It
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There has been a lot of news lately about law schools banning the use of AI — the University of Chicago is one of the more extreme cases, prohibiting computer use for the entire first year of law school. I understand the impulse: AI has made prior learning methods like take-home exams and homework essentially useless as measures of competence. But the question I keep coming back to is this: how do we design a system that doesn’t just exclude AI, but lets students and AI co-exist and co-evolve? Like it or not, AI is here to stay. You can ban it as hard as you want, but students will use it anyway. The right approach isn’t to ban AI as much as possible — it’s to teach students how to master it and incorporate it correctly into their workflow.