Every word of Megan Fritts’s essay published in The Point today—fittingly titled “A Matter of Words”—is in the right place; every sentence is worth quoting. Read the whole thing, but here is my favorite paragraph:

universities will need to embrace a much more radical response to AI than has so far been contemplated. Preserving art, literature and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI, and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice. Because of the ubiquity of AI technology, students will likely be using it persistently outside the classroom in their personal lives. The humanities classroom must be a place where these tools for offloading the task of genuine expression are forbidden—stronger, where their use is shunned, seen as a faux pas of the deeply different norms of a deeply different space.