MIT's committee report has a line in it that is going to be quoted at faculty meetings for a year.

Students notice when instructors are clearly using AI for slides, feedback, or grading while imposing restrictions on student use, and they perceive it as a double standard.

That is not a warning about the future. The committee heard it in listening sessions this year, alongside a student refrain they printed in full: why should I bother coming to class or doing the work if the teacher is just going to give an AI-generated lecture.

The uncomfortable part is that the audit has already been run on all of us, informally, by people who sit in the room and read our comments. Writing a disclosure line does not create that judgement. It just stops pretending it is not happening.

Open the syllabus for a course you are teaching right now. Does it say anything at all about where you use AI? One word is a complete answer: yes or no.