I just read an oped in an Ivy League undergraduate newspaper arguing that it is a matter of basic justice for the university to pay for and provide students with access to the most up-to-date AI platforms. Duke University, the oped argues, is already paying for and providing its students with this platform. If this Ivy League university not does follow the example of Duke, Duke students will have an “unfair advantage” over this university’s students. The university must make this technology available to ensure that its students are competing on a “level playing field.”

This article, I should say, may be the best reason I’ve yet found for why universities should ban AI. Until you’ve been forced to sweat your way through Rawls, and I mean really sweat your way, not have it predigested for you, not have it handed to you in the form of lecture notes from your professor or AI, until you’ve been required to read Emma, and forced to feel, in your body and your bones, what social stupidity actually looks like, from the inside and the outside, I don’t know that you can really understand, again, in your body and your bones, what justice and seeing social facts clearly entail, and why this oped is so farkakte.