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Should we encourage AI use in writing-intensive classes? (opens the original)
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Last week I sent an email to Harvard students on the first day of class that outlined my areas of focus for the College in the upcoming academic year. One of those three areas of focus was developing a set of guidelines and policies for AI use in the classroom. In that email, I argued for a “barbell” approach to AI usage – either ban it in a way that is realistically enforceable, or accept the fact that students are going to use it and build your assignments around that reality. Optimistically,
The Three Eras of Undergraduate Education (opens the original)
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This week marks the beginning of the academic year at Harvard, and I have been thinking a lot about the state of U.S. undergraduate education. It’s become highly fashionable to predict the demise of college, and many private colleges around the country really are closing, although that is most
Should we treat autonomous AI agents like children? (opens the original)
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OpenAI agents broke out of their training environment and hacked into another company. That’s raised the alarm in Washington, DC, where AI safety legislation is being considered as we speak. People say the models went rogue, but that’s wrong. They did exactly what they were told to do.They acted literally in single-minded pursuit of a narrow goal but violated broader moral principles in the process. The word for this in the AI safety community is alignment. Alignment and misalignment are abstrac
Efficient social learning is the human advantage over AI (opens the original)
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A few months ago, Alex Imas wrote an essay about the future of the labor market called “What will be scarce?” He argued that material abundance from transformative AI will create a post-commodity economy and increase the importance of products in which the human touch has intrinsic value, what he calls the “relational” sector. In other words, consumers want a person in the loop, not because people are better or more efficient than machines. The essay <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o
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