They never stopped asking students to explain themselves out loud. Not just because they're traditional, but because they couldn't afford to find out what happens when you don't.
It's not "Should we allow AI in our classrooms?" That ship has sailed. The better question is: How do we create an environment where our campus communities can learn to use AI responsibly?
Employers are interviewing graduates who cannot explain their own work. The degree is on the wall. The understanding isn't there. And everyone involved is pretending not to notice.
Professors are walking into classrooms armed with policies written for a problem they don't fully understand, directed at students who understand it better than they do.
Nobody is sitting in a dorm room at midnight plotting how to undermine academic integrity. Students are using AI because it works — and because they're preparing for a workforce that runs on AI.
