Google shipped a conversational assistant inside Docs, Gmail and Keep on September 3, and campus Workspace accounts are last in line. Your syllabus AI policy names a website. Here is how to rewrite it once so it names a behavior instead.
On Thursday morning ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all had problems inside the same few hours. On Friday the newest model locked out the people paying for it. Neither is an argument about whether students should use AI. Both are a question about what your assignment does when the tool is not there.
OpenAI says ChatGPT ads are labeled and separate today, and that the next phase makes them more native. The response is not a ban. It is one editing pass on the assignment.
A 2026 preprint found 1,655 fabricated author records on Zenodo carrying real DOIs, backdated and indexed. They pass the four source checks most of us teach. Here is the check that still works.
A randomized trial from OpenAI Economic Research and Bocconi University gave more than 1,000 undergraduates ChatGPT, critical thinking training, both, or neither. The rubric caught the ChatGPT polish and could not see the original ideas. Here is the one row to add before your next stack lands.
MIT’s AI committee report advises against AI detectors and asks every subject to post a generative AI policy in the syllabus. Section 3.2.3 asks instructors to disclose their own AI use in slides, feedback and grading. Here is how to write both lines for one assignment.
The University of Mississippi told every department to write its own AI policy this semester, and the guideline names generative, assistive and agentic AI separately, in every course component. Most syllabus policies name one. Here is what the other two columns have to say.
Three student facing AI products shipped in forty eight hours, and two of them read a syllabus as structured data. Extraction is lossy. Here is what falls out of your course and what to do about it in week one.
A PNAS study of NSF and NIH proposals found that heavier language model use did not lower quality. It lowered semantic distinctiveness, pulling proposals toward work the agency had already funded. The fix is not abstinence. It is what you put in the box first.
Waterloo built an AI certificate with Cohere where the first skill is diagnosing the organizational bottleneck before anyone picks a tool. The order of operations is the transferable part, and it applies to the course you are building this week.
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