Viet Thanh Nguyen

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The Dan Le Batard Show · South Beach Sessions - Viet Thanh Nguyen · 18 Sep 2025 podcast

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.

Plato was critical about the pen as an instrument or writing as a technology that distracted people from full knowledge.

And so I don't want to undersell what AI means, but I do want to say that we always have to confront new technological challenges.

So I think AI is probably different than a calculator, probably different than a computer.

Computers and calculators still required

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