Grieving What AI Has Taken from Learning

Justin Weinberg
“I wonder if these people have ever seen a student’s face when they finally understand something for the first time.” Jane Sloan Peters, a professor of religious studies and historical theologian at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, was talking with her students about changes she has made to her teaching so as to safeguard student learning from artificial intelligence when “a wave of sadness washed over me, and I actually got choked up in front of the class.” “Before AI,” I told them, “Stud