Meredith Martin, humanities faculty featured in story on humanities teaching in the AI age

Overview

[AI Summary]: The Daily Princetonian feature examines how humanities professors at Princeton are adapting to widespread generative AI use among students, with data showing only 28% of the Class of 2029 rarely used AI during high school. Meredith Martin (CDH Faculty Director) and other humanities faculty discuss their varied responses—from outright bans and in-class exams to encouraging transparent AI use—while expressing concerns about AI’s impact on critical thinking and writing. The article explores fundamental questions about whether humanities education can survive AI’s transformation of how students learn and think.