President Beilock is right about one thing: There is a place for artificial intelligence in classrooms, and students won’t be well prepared for the world if they aren’t taught how to use it. I just wish we were taking some more time to ensure that our community is using it properly. If we can’t trust Ivy League professors to use AI with academic integrity yet, how are we supposed to trust students?
I have no illusions when I write about artificial intelligence. To some, I know I come off as an angry senior citizen proclaiming the rapture because people started using calculators. But there is a line between using AI to optimize workflows and uploading student work for a hypothetical grading system. This type of use erodes the skills of new professionals by outsourcing the work that teaches them how to do their job well, and that’s especially problematic at an institution where the stewardship and maintenance of knowledge is the primary goal.
Dartmouth’s integration of AI is coming too fast, without proper training of faculty or students on how to use it responsibly. The unfortunate truth is that learning is inconvenient. It takes time to read boring books, do hard problem sets and work specifically for yourself.
Eli Moyse ’27 is an opinion editor and heads The Dartmouth Editorial Board. Letters to the Editor represent the views of their author(s), which are not necessarily those of The Dartmouth.
Eli Moyse ’27 is an opinion editor and columnist for The Dartmouth. He studies government and creative writing. He publishes various personal work under a pen name on Substack (https://substack.com/@wesmercer), and you can find his other work in various publications.
