(25 Aug 2026) Today’s students will graduate into workplaces where using AI is as unremarkable as using spreadsheets. A university that outright prohibits AI is preparing graduates for a world that no longer exists, and, as adoption figures show, prohibition doesn’t work anyway.
The meaningful question is whether students know how to use AI intelligently. Can they question its answers? Identify its mistakes? Recognise its biases? Decide when it is useful and when it should be ignored?
These are precisely the capabilities their future employers will demand. They are also, it turns out, capabilities we can observe, teach and assess.
Instead of banning AI, we should deliberately integrate it into essay assignments: encourage students to use it transparently, record their prompts, and explain how they evaluated the responses it gave them.
Their work is then assessed not only on the quality of the essay but also on how thoughtfully they used the technology.”
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