In the coming years, I expect to hear a whole lot of “Don’t blame me!! Gen AI did it! The AI dog ate my homework!!”

One of my biggest wishes right now is that we get crystal clarity, both legally and culturally, that if a computer system screws up (AI or otherwise) then that’s the responsibility of the people who •chose to use• the system.

In other words, we as a campus community have an active debate about which debates are even worth having — and we have room to exercise judgement about which voices we as a community choose to amplify.

Amplifying all voices is not a route to free society; it’s a route to total noise. Flooding the zone is just as effective a means of censorship as silencing all opposition. As people trying to foster useful discussion, we have an obligation to choose choose wisely our topics of discussion and the voices we elevate.

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