The loss that he describes is deeper and more existential than anything academic integrity can protect: a specific, if perhaps decaying, way of being among students and their teachers. “AI has already changed the classroom into something I no longer recognize,” he told me. In this view, AI isn’t a harbinger of the future but the last straw in a profession that was almost lost already, to funding collapse, gun violence, state overreach, economic decay, credentialism, and all the rest. New technology arrives on that grim shore, making schoolwork feel worthless, carried out to turn the crank of a machine rather than for teaching or learning.
Maybe the way College traditionally constructed is just outdated? Not everything can be the same for hundreds or even half a hundred years.
Going to the more classic college srtucture would be an improvement. Contemporary college is just this but with more capitalism and standartized testing and without the cool parts.
Frankly, the Thayer Method they use at West Point sounds very effective for adapting to this situation.