AI has exposed age-old problems with university coursework

Instead of romanticising a pre-AI past, universities should use this moment to rethink what they actually want students to nstrate, says Dr Nafisa Baba-Ahmed The frustration many academics are expressing about artificial intelligence and critical thinking is understandable ( ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI, 10 March ). But from my experience working with students on academic writing, blaming AI risks masking a problem that universities have lived with for years.