The Modern Language Association (MLA) has issues a statement on AI urging that faculty and instructors be fully involved in decision-making regarding the use of AI in education, and "to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." If no action is taken, argues the MLA, then there's the risk of "assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work." What's interesting, I think, is that this loop would isolate precisely the actual human work involved in each of these three steps, which would be the only differentiator between interactions of the loop, and therefore probably a pretty good basis for grading, without all the busy-work the AI is now completing on its own.
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