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Questions ofhow to best usher Harvard into the AI age have been simmering at the University for years, ever since the Faculty of Arts and Sciences released its first guidelines for classroom AI use in 2023. But the issue has boiled over with the start of the fall semester. Harvard leadership—including President Alan M. Garber…

This August, an MIT committee of faculty, students, and staff released a remarkably thoughtful report on “AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training.” Its many cautions included the warning that “as a community, what should worry us most is that many uses of AI deprive students of the opportunity to learn.”