Content is the “world’s worst word”, he adds, because it dehumanises writing and suggests “it has no real value inherently, and it doesn’t matter if humans made it or not”.
While Gen Z may be advanced at generating quick outputs or using free LLMs for surface-level tasks, they need to develop critical thinking, communication, and analysis skills.
And that is why the rise of AI writing represents a great opportunity for literature, even as it makes life harder for professional writers. When photography was developed in the 19th century, it replaced painting for most utilitarian purposes; a camera could document what things looked like more accurately and cheaply than a painter could. But the art of painting didn’t die out. On the contrary, it entered a golden age: Freed from the obligation of realism, painters developed radical new ways of seeing, such as Impressionism, Cubism, and abstract expressionism. Now AI has the potential to liberate literature in the same way. In a world full of emptily competent prose, we need writers daring, challenging, and obstinate enough to tell us what it’s like to be human, “from the inside.”
Universities should set standards for academics using AI and require a guarantee work is “human-authored” before publication, a former university chancellor says.
I was just reminiscing on how much I enjoyed 'whiteboard art' as a teaching aid in face to face sessions, but remembered how long it took to create and how bad my whiteboard writing is! Asked my friend #AI and got this back Lickety-split! Something to consider when thinking of another way of getting your ideas across when #teaching?
AI is Rejecting Black Job Applicants Before a Human Ever Sees Them A Stanford study found that thousands of applications may have died inside the software before the interview stage. In May 2026 …
An academic from Western Sydney University has admitted that she used artificial intelligence to write an opinion piece for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that defended the use of AI in universities.
A California mom says she was scammed out of thousands of dollars this month after receiving a call that sounded like her daughter in distress. She now suspects it was an artificial intelligence-generated hoax.
The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.
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