C. Thi Nguyen

As short takeaways go, that's pretty primo.

On the one hand, I think there is this kind of core tension that's hard to get out of between accessibility and inaccessibility, but there are also weird tweaks you can do.

Let me just tell you about the weirdest thing I did.

So on the one hand...

I find GPA—I'm a professor.

I find GPA really authoritarian and gross.

But also, when I try to ungrade my classes and not use grades in my classes, students just stop coming because they're in an environment where grading counts.

So, I have to live inside the grading system, and yet, like, I don't want to—

I don't want to just grade in an unthinking way.

So I just tried the following experiment.

You know, it's chat GPT era, like total chaos in the university.

No one knows what to do.

And the last time I taught technology ethics and political philosophy, I walked in and I was like, I don't know what to do about chat GPT.

So here's what we're going to do.

We are going to go through a process.

We're going to read a bunch about the impact of automation on us.

We're going to read a bunch about what education is for.

We're going to read a bunch about AI.

And then you're all going to design the assignment and grading structure of the class, argue it out, and then vote.

And then we're just going to do what you pick.