A few weeks back I gave a presentation to the C4AI AI Lunchbox Series focused on “Rethinking our relationship with Writing in the Age of AI.”

Our relationship with writing was irrevocably changed in November ‘22 with the release of ChatGPT. This seismic shift has been touted as the “death of the college essay,” a clarion call to change all assessments, distrust all writing for the classroom, and revert to centuries-old assessment methods (vivas, bluebooks, etc.). Long-time practitioners in online education recognized this shift coming–not from Generative AI, but from contract cheating and essay mills–in this session, I’ll want to share a rosier view of the future of writing and our relationship to it.