Viet Thanh Nguyen

It's like humanity is not enough.

We need to be divine.

Well, be careful what you wish for because you go back to the Bible, the Tower of Babel.

God struck down human beings who aspired too much to divinity.

Yeah.

Well, actually, I have teaching assistants, so thankfully I don't have to do that.

But I hear from my TA, it's like, oh, my God, we think this has been written by AI.

And I teach a large lecture class on the Vietnam War, and I try to make it AI-proof.

Their big project as students is to go and interview people, which hopefully you can't do with AI, or else you might be out of a job, right?

What could happen?

but they have to actually interview real living people.

You could be replaced by AI, but the subject, the interviewee should be a real human being, we hope.

Anyway, so that part hopefully is AI proof.

And so we as teachers have to be smarter.

Now, we always have to meet new technological challenges.

But even in things like, oh my God, I have in-class blue book exams and my tears are like

this looks like it was written by AI.

Like somehow some students snuck in something that allowed them possibly to manufacture their writing.

So look, education has always been confronted by technology.

I'm sure people were upset about calculators and about rulers and things like that.