Student‑Run AI‑Only Class

Updated: 2026.10.30 1H ago 1 sources
Allow students to take a course with no live lecturer where learning is driven by AI tools and the professor’s role is to assess the student’s documented workflow (how they used AI). Start as a single experimental class per student, with logs reviewed by faculty and—over time—by automated graders. — If adopted, this experiment could accelerate decentralization of pedagogy, force universities to choose diverse AI policies competitively, and reframe what credentialing and teaching competence mean in the AI era.

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Chronicle of Higher Education interviews me on AI and education
Tyler Cowen 2026.10.30 100% relevant
Cowen explicitly proposes 'one class, only one class, AI-only — no professor, except a professor grades at the end' and suggests grading the student's workflow/log of AI use.
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