The Martin Center’s editor, Graham Hillard, wrote an essay for the Washington Examiner: In Praise of Errors: ChatGPT Is Scrambling Campus Values, examining how the rise of ChatGPT has reshaped expectations in college classrooms. In his piece, Hillard describes how error-free writing—once considered a marker of student excellence—now raises suspicions that the work was produced by artificial intelligence. Professors, he argues, are finding themselves in an ironic reversal: flaws and mistakes in student papers have become signs of authentic human effort.
Following the essay’s publication, Hillard was invited to El Podcast to discuss his arguments in greater depth. In the episode, he reflects on how AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping teaching, learning, and the broader value of higher education, creating what he calls an “arms race” around authentic student work and raising questions about the future of college credentials.
To read the full piece, visit the Washington Examiner – HERE, and to listen to the full interview, check out El Podcast.