Once meant to empower us, AI culture now glamorizes shortcuts and academic dishonesty — turning human creativity into an afterthought. AI startup companies like Cluely have unfortunately transformed AI from a tool of innovation into an inescapable condition of our ever-demanding world whose marketing normalizes and even necessitates cheating on anything and everything. We must work to revalue individualistic traits in our work, for the sake of it being meaningful and formative.
Tag: ChatGPT
OPINION: The 5Cs need to stop promoting AI
Many of us cheer for labor rights and criticize billionaires, and then we turn around and ask ChatGPT a question. Celeste Cariker PZ ’28 critiques the Claremont Colleges and much of the student body for their uncritical embrace of artificial intelligence (AI), which is increasingly used to replace human labor in industries like fast food, customer service and transportation.
OPINION: Seminars should be tech-free spaces
We have all seen the sneaky side of Google, summary sheets open mid-class and ChatGPT flooding browsers. Is this what we imagined when we decided to pursue a liberal arts education? The temptation of the internet open to us in each class seems too great to resist, but we can resist it. Elias Diwan PO ’25 argues that we should elevate the quality of our classes by leaving our computers at home and actually doing the reading and taking the risks necessary to engage deeply in our classes.
Erin Reddick, ChatBlackGPT founder, pioneers culturally aware AI
On Feb. 6, the founder and CEO of ChatBlackGPT, Erin Reddick, spoke at Scripps College about the importance of including Black perspectives in AI.
OPINION: Stop using ChatGPT
Chat-GPT is ubiquitous in the academic scene, creeping into essay writing, brainstorming, and problem sets. As much as 86% of students admit to using the program, but Alex Benach PO ’28 argues that the staggering environmental costs of generative AI are not worth the ease that AI provides.
Emily Bender on AI as a ‘stochastic parrot’
On Nov. 12, computational linguist Emily Bender delivered a lecture titled “Don’t Try to Get Answers from a Stochastic Parrot”: the third and final lecture in Harvey Mudd College’s Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series.
John Warner on defending writing from AI
On Oct. 8, John Warner, a writer and former professor at College of Charleston and Virginia Tech, among other institutions, delivered the second lecture in the annual Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series at Harvey Mudd College.
OPINION: Professors, ChatGPT isn’t the enemy
Despite the frightening claims of the existential threat of AI, particularly on scholarly work and human thought, Joanne Oh PZ ’25 wants us to realize it’s not all bad: this is an opportunity to grow with technology rather than against it.