As AI sweeps through higher education, a growing number of professors have been drawing a line in the sand—banning AI tools from the classroom and returning to classic “blue book” exams to ensure authentic, human-driven learning. David Joyner of Georgia Tech told Fortune that he’s heard blue-book sales are up something like 50% nationwide. In fact, The Wall Street Journal reported in May that they they’ve risen even higher at some colleges, such as the University of California, Berkeley, whose bookstore reported an 80% surge over the last two years.
But Joyner, who among other things is Georgia Tech’s executive director of online education, where he’s long been a leader in the online education space with an ultra-cheap $7,000 computer science Masters degree, has other ideas. He and Anant Agarwal, an award-winning professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have cloned Joyner in cyberspace and created an artificial intelligence (AI) professor.
