Entering her first year of teaching as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, Sydney Koeplin had more on her mind than how to relate to her students. She was worried about how to deal with generative AI.

At first, Koeplin took a "hard line" against allowing students to use AI beyond basic grammar and spelling checks. (The school's curriculum dictated that it could be used conditionally, but those conditions were left to the professor to define.) After several students in her first semester used AI to generate assignments, Koeplin changed her approach. She moved away from traditional grading to "contract grading," where a student's final grade was based on how much effort they put into the work. Koeplin didn't receive any more AI-generated papers.

"I would tell my student

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