An English professor at Dartmouth was appointed as the special advisor to the Provost on AI, and drafted a report last year on the adoption of the technology. What did the report say?
Diti Kohli: Essentially, he was charged with doing a temperature check, largely of the faculty, but also of students and staff. And what he found was a lot of, frankly, still resistance to the technology on campus. I think it’s long documented that there’s a lot of professors who have fears about cheating and critical thinking with AI. But ultimately, the report noted that caution but also laid out a number of ways in which the school would integrate AI into campus.
So, whether that was putting together a partnership with Anthropic, which is what we ended up reporting on, but also just ways of thinking about it in terms of the classroom, how can it be used for assignments in a way that actually engages students rather than just defaulting to it. In all, I think there were about 22 recommendations. So, it was a pretty vast list.
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