AI is a flawed tool that will impact everyone regardless of consent, and a critical understanding will help you wield it while protecting you from biases and harms.
As increasingly intense competition pushes students to forsake intellectual passions in favor of a stronger graduate school application, we risk not only the soul of our university, but the opportunity for our generation to make real change.
The backlash against business economics is less a protection of UChicago’s intellectual identity and more a self-fulfilling prophecy pushing students toward Wall Street.
Without significant investments in research faculty, expansion will dilute the undergraduate experience; the University’s track record suggests those investments are unlikely.
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
The Maroon’s Viewpoints section must continue publishing writing that reflects all parts of the UChicago community.
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