From the Harvard Crimson: Almost four years after the public release of ChatGPT, nearly two-thirds of professors who responded to The Crimson’s annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey said they believe the prevalence of artificial intelligence has had a negative effect on their courses. Sixty-four percent of faculty respondents said AI had a “somewhat negative” or “very negative” effect on their courses this year — a sharp uptick from last year’s survey, when 42 percent said the same. The figures point to growing concerns about tools that allow students to complete assignments without fully absorbing content, even as professors adjust their courses to keep up with the technology.
Course-level policies are now commonplace: Only 3.5 percent of respondents said they have no explicit policy on AI tools in their courses, down from 10 percent last year. The percentage of respondents who said they “entirely permit” the use of AI tools in their courses was also roughly halved, from 8 percent to 4 percent. The faculty concerns come as Harvard coordinates broader curricular responses to AI. Harvard College added a required AI module to the first-year Expository Writing course this spring and phased in an AI chatbot to advise incoming students on course planning. The FAS also announced plans this spring to offer access to Anthropic’s Claude, while ending its institution-wide ChatGPT Edu pilot...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/9/14/fas-2026-survey-AI/.
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