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Nir Eisikovits, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

Will AI hollow out the pipeline of students, researchers and faculty that is the basis of today’s universities? Hill Street Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can instructors tell? Should universities ban the tech? Embrace it?

These concerns are understandable. But focusing so much on cheating misses the larger transformation already underway, one that extends far beyond student misconduct and even the classroom.

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