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How would universities meaningfully enforce a "total AI ban" while simultaneously demanding accelerated productivity from both students and faculty?
What exactly ought to be banned?
Summarising texts? Editing? Brainstorming? Coding? Lecture prep? Grammar correction? Reading comprehension? Research assistance? Translation?
Students today are expected to juggle assignments, internships, publications, leadership roles, networking, and also market signalling within very tight schedules.
Faculty are buried under administrative load, more teaching online to raise revenues, pressure to cater to rankings, and publication metrics.
This is especially true in India's rapidly expanding private university sector, which emerged alongside the weakening of public universities and increasingly treats higher education as a competitive productivity pipeline.
At the same time, these institutions aggressively market "AI-ready graduates", launch AI programmes, expand digital governance systems, and integrate AI tools into pedagogy and administration.
A "total AI ban" assumes there is still a clear boundary between "authentic" intellectual work and that which is technologically mediated. Universities themselves no longer behave as though such a boundary exists.
Many students in disciplines like political science, sociology, anthropology, or international affairs are already anxious about rising fees, weak job markets, and constant pressure to acquire employable “skills” beyond the degree itself.
In practice, AI now appears to many of them as one more technology they turn to in order to survive the volume and pace that universities themselves demand.
It is difficult to see why a university promising complete withdrawal from these technologies would suddenly experience a surge in enrollment.
I don’t think any of this produces a healthier intellectual culture. I would much rather universities had the time, and resources to preserve slower, more social, and affordable forms of learning.
David Decosimo@DavidDecosimo
The first major university that publicly commits to a total AI ban in its undergrad teaching (no AI in class, in creating syllabi or class prep, creating & completing assignments, or grading) and makes that part of its brand will see a major surge in applications & enrollment.
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