Scott Carlson did the work (gated, but free with registration), here is one excerpt:

Cowen: …Another proposal I’ve made is that schools should let people do one class, only one class, AI-only — no professor, except a professor grades at the end. The professor grades not answers to an exam but the workflow of how the student used AI to learn the Glorious Revolution, or the Civil War, or whatever the student learned. Eventually, another AI will grade your AI log. But let’s start today with a professor, and try this for one class. I’m not sure how it will go. But especially for small schools that don’t offer that many classes, a student now can create a class in literally everything.

If it’s successful, let them try two classes. I think the students doing this on their own are more likely to figure out how to blend AI and education than we would from a distance with some kind of centralized vision. Let them experiment.

Carlson: Students should be leading the change at colleges and universities?

Cowen: Absolutely. Students know more about AI than their professors do. Some of this comes from cheating, which is unfortunate. But the notion that the professors teach the students AI — I wish. It’s not always possible. You could imagine setting up a class where the students teach the professors AI, and we give the students credit for teaching. I’m half joking, but it’s not, in fact, a crazy idea. We need to experiment along a number of fronts. I’m quite convinced no one knows how to do this. It hasn’t been done before. So again, just one class. In general, schools hate this idea. They see it as opening the door to rendering some professors obsolete.

And this:

Carlson: There are a number of students who are deeply opposed to AI. What place do they have in this university that you’re thinking about?

Cowen: I would love to have different schools with different policies. If some universities try to ban AI altogether, that’s great. Let the competitive process operate. Personally, I would bet against those schools. For a long time, I’ve been worried that within a given tier of school — big state school, community college, Ivy League — there’s not enough diversity. AI policies will force a kind of diversity on us. So I’m all for no-AI schools, even though I would not go to one.

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