If there was any doubt that artificial intelligence is on the mind of Harvard’s faculty and administrators, David J. Deming — the College’s new dean — greeted freshmen at Convocation by urging them to prepare for a world revolutionized by generative AI.
“Young, educated people like you are already the heaviest users of AI, and you are creative and open-minded enough to figure out the best ways to use it, too,” Deming said.
There’s no question that AI has become ubiquitous in Harvard classrooms. Nearly 80 percent of respondents to The Crimson’s annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey in spring 2025 said they had seen coursework they knew or believed was produced with AI — a sharp rise from two years before, when more than half of respondents said they hadn’t received AI-generated work.
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