Students can use generative AI to draft and send enormously scaled outreach or protest messages to administrators and external officials. That low‑cost amplification bypasses traditional organizing costs and can quickly provoke institutional investigations, disciplinary responses, and policy changes about acceptable activism.
— If widespread, this pattern will force universities and employers to define new rules for automated political outreach, balancing student speech rights with operational integrity and harassment protections.
Harris Sockel
2026.01.05
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The article reports a campaign emailing 3,800 Ivy League bureaucrats (actor: Alex Shieh/Lulu Cheng Meservey) and the school opening an investigation — a direct example of automated outreach triggering institutional discipline.
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