Universities should stop treating AI as a cheating problem
One refuses to touch it, convinced that real learning only happens without the machine. The other, who uses it daily and carries a quiet mix of shame and worry, wonders: Am I still learning anything at all? Neither has received meaningful guidance from their university.
- ▪One refuses to touch it, convinced that real learning only happens without the machine.
- ▪The other, who uses it daily and carries a quiet mix of shame and worry, wonders: Am I still learning anything at all?
- ▪Neither has received meaningful guidance from their university.
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| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 |
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Open this photo in gallery:In Canada, 73 per cent of students rely on generative AI for schoolwork, up from 52 per cent just two years ago.JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty ImagesShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountAnna Jahn is executive director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy.My two children are undergraduates, one at McGill, one at the University of Toronto. They have made opposite bets on AI. One refuses to touch it, convinced that real learning only happens without the machine. The other, who uses it daily and carries a quiet mix of shame and worry, wonders: Am I still learning anything at all? Neither has received meaningful guidance from their university.
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