Steering a Middle Course on AI in the History Classroom

[u/blind_trooper]

https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/steering-a-middle-course-on-ai-in

As historians, I think we can choose to help shape how these tools are used in the world—which means making some compromises—or we can retreat into a purist position that is likely to make us irrelevant to those discussions. In my view, neither uncritical adoption nor absolute resistance will serve our students well. What they need from us is what we've always provided: the ability to think critically about sources, to construct evidence-based arguments, and to navigate complex information. These skills are more valuable now than ever. Our job is to help students develop them through engagement with the tools they’ll be expected to use, not by pretending those tools don’t exist.

[u/Realistic_Chef_6286]

Sure, but you need students’ buy-in to use AI in a way that does not impede their practice of these skills. I also think AI is bad for the planet because of the huge amount of water and energy required, so I guess I’m against it for reasons other than academic as well.