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Yesterday, I was pretty sure I saw a student in my seminar wearing AI glasses, but I did not know how to react. On the one hand, I was curious and would have loved to talk to them about their experience with them, and maybe even tried them on to see what they can do. It is quite cool technology, after all! On the other hand, I did not want them to feel like I was accusing them of anything, and I wasn't completely certain that those were, indeed, AI glasses. But they might not have been, or they might be wearing them as assistive technology for something they would not want to discuss with me or in front of their peers. How could and maybe should I have reacted?

Everybody seems to be talking about AI tutors and how they are so helpful for students' learning. Convince me!

People tend to talk (and think) about how AI responds to questions they asked it, how it helps them do stuff, etc, as if AI/it was a person -- which it is very clearly not. What are ways to talk about AI that make it clear that there isn't some little helpful and knowledgeable person sitting inside people's computers and phones, but that outputs are just based on probabilities calculated by some algorithm that is trained on some data set in certain ways? I feel like the kind of language we use to talk about AI has an influence on how we think about it and I don't want to do that unreflectedly.

Yesterday I got into a heated discussion with colleagues over whether we should make it mandatory for students to disclose their AI use in assignments. Arguments from one side were that we need to know what they are doing, and also that having to disclose AI use will make them reflect on how they are using it. Arguments from the other side were that mandated disclosure does not mean that all students really tell us what they are doing, but rather that some will feel a lot of stress to disclose to the tiniest detail, while others will just write what they think a teacher will want to hear. So if we cannot trust the information they provide anyway, why put the stress on them. While I really want to know how my students are using AI so I can discuss it with them and make sure they use it in ways that will (likely) not harm them, is mandatory disclosure really the way to go, or what other alternatives do I have?