Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads

Full disclose: I'm a Purdue graduate, though I disagree with certain things the school has done (Purdue Global).

Part of this is very reasonable; AI is upending how students learn (or cheat), so adding a requirement to teach how to do it in a way that improves learning rather than just enhances cheating makes sense. The problem with the broad, top-down approach is it looks like what happens in Corporate America where there's a CEO edict that "we need a ____ strategy," and every department pivots projects to include that, whether or not it makes sense.

I like this take. It seems like it would be useful to require professors to sit in on the class too. It'd be interesting to hear lots of different perspectives, ideas, concerns, etc., rather than a lecture format to half-awake students about something they arguably know more about than the instructor.