Is There Room for Enmity in the A.I. Classroom? (opens in new tab)

"By heightening emotion, hatred deepens the personhood of both teachers and students." ... "Over the past year, the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in high school and college classrooms has called into question the uniquely human elements of teaching. What can a flesh-and-blood instructor offer that a well-tuned machine cannot? One naturally thinks of affirmation and love, of the teacher as a moral exemplar and a trusted advisor, which are roles that disembodied algorithms can at b...