Two Professors, Two Playbooks: How AI Is Splitting College Classrooms

Artificial intelligence has split one psychology department down the middle. At Washington University, Professor Mitchell Sommers now builds his Introduction to Psychology lecture slides with AI, while English professor David Schuman calls the technology a fundamental threat to proper learning. The result, according to Student Life, is not one campus policy but two very different classrooms — and a course syllabus that changed because of it. For parents watching college costs climb, the split matters. Sommers removed the writing assignments from his course entirely after an informal test showed faculty could not spot AI-generated writing. The course now runs on three in-class exams and a final in-class exam — a format he himself calls a terrible way to evaluate students. That trade-off, between honest assessment and meaningful assessment, is one families may see more of as AI sweeps into higher education.

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