To Short-Circuit the Higher Education AI Apocalypse, We Must Embrace Generative AI

UF researcher Brian Harfe shared insights in an op-ed on how generative AI is transforming higher education. He discussed AI’s evolving role in academia and its implications for students, faculty, and institutions.

The rapid improvement of generative AI tools has led many of my peers to proclaim that higher education as we know it has come to a crashing and shocking end. I agree.  

In my large-enrollment general education course at the University of Florida, I can no longer assign an essay asking students to state their views on genetic engineering and assume the responses I receive are written by humans. So the critical question we must ask as academics is, “What do we do now?”  

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