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Students can pretty much automate take-home essay writing with natural language processing AI.

When I've tried it (e.g. sudowrite), auto-generated text easily beat average undergraduate essays, with no way to detect fraud.

Feels like there's a massive challenge coming to higher education, and universities are completely unprepared.

Whether we like it or not, the skills we teach, and more importantly how we test them, will have to change drastically in just a few years. This won't go away...

60+: House seats that flipped from D->R in 2010

~30: Avg. flips following change in exec. branch control

20+: flips Kevin McCarthy defined as a "red wave."

8-16: likely flips, this cycle

I reflected on what we've learned so far about the state of the American electorate, and what we've yet to learn, for BU Today. Available at the link below!

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/thoughts-reactions-from-the-2022-midterms/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=link&utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=social_main

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