A trap that this essay avoids is spending all its words on student “cheating” and leaving out the ways colleges have eagerly lined up to devalue their product.

Yes, seeing these sheets on a desk will strike fear into the heart of any student, but they won’t dramatically accelerate the climate change that is burning down their schools, homes, and towns, so they got that going for them.

Twenty years in education and I have seen so many things that were going to "save teachers time" and then it got weaponized into "if you don't use this, you're ruining your students' future" and usually when that mindless zealousness comes around it's less than a year for that tech to collapse.

Just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT in January 2023, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments.