David Smiley, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Minor in Data Science, was featured in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education publication, where he offered his thoughts on undergraduate use of AI in classes.
If AI systems increasingly handle the cognitive labor of classwork, they argue, students may lose the skills universities are meant to cultivate. A liberal arts education, Smiley said, is not just about acquiring information. It’s about developing the ability to think, reason and adapt.