u/Few_Slice_64

My answer to the above question is yes. AI makes it extremely easy to cheat, so students who wouldn't have thought about buying a paper 10 years ago will readily use AI because it's right in front of their nose.

I bring this up--and would like to hear your thoughts--because if you talk to the pro-AI faculty, they will immediately respond that student cheating is nothing new, and unethical use of AI is just the latest version of it.

But this is a disingenuous argument because AI has changed the academic environment.

I find that students seem more willing to lie and to stand by lies even in non-AI areas. To me, at least, it seems they are like this because AI is destroying their moral compass.

What do you think?

I teach at a university that has a collective area open to faculty where, each semester, you can see the grades other teachers have given. The grades are anonymous. You can't see students' names, but you can see how many A's, B's, etc. someone has given for a particular class. The majority of grades usually are in the A, A- range. Faculty members would stand out (and probably not in a good way, especially if adjuncts) if their grades followed a bell curve. I feel like providing this area is subtle pressure to inflate grades and to ensure "success." Does anyone else have access to such an area? What do you think of providing this type of access?