Instructor Urges Delaying AI Use Until 40 After Graduate Students Misuse It
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 27
Instructor Urges Delaying AI Use Until 40 After Graduate Students Misuse It
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 27
Summary
A graduate instructor argues A.I. access should be delayed until age 40, saying developing minds are being handed a powerful tool before they can handle its consequences.
In the instructor’s brand-strategy program, students signed rules allowing A.I. for research and visualization but barring it from replacing original thinking and writing in thesis work.
Several students still admitted using A.I. to “augment and synthesize” their writing after repeated warnings, which the instructor says weakened their struggle with language, authorship and accountability.
The essay frames that misuse as evidence that rapid normalization of A.I. has outpaced a basic question: whether every new technology should be available to every student immediately.