Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Since ChatGPT’s release in November 2022, instructors across all sectors of higher education have been forced to confront a new reality. Initial fears focused on student cheating and the “death of the take-home essay,” but the implications have quickly expanded. Long-standing practices now require rethinking, revising, or even abandoning, and the transition has been difficult. Nearly three years in, this issue offers an overview of the disruption AI has unleashed, along with emerging ideas and glimpses of hope. AI is a genie that won’t return to the bottle, and while its long-term effects remain uncertain, our task now is simply to understand the upheaval. Read more: chronicle.com/package/ai-issue-2025
Since ChatGPT’s release in November 2022, instructors across all sectors of higher education have been forced to confront a new reality. Initial fears focused on student cheating and the “death of the take-home essay,” but the implications have quickly expanded. Long-standing practices now require rethinking, revising, or even abandoning, and the transition has been difficult. Nearly three years in, this issue offers an overview of the disruption AI has unleashed, along with emerging ideas and glimpses of hope. AI is a genie that won’t return to the bottle, and while its long-term effects remain uncertain, our task now is simply to understand the upheaval. Read more: chronicle.com/package/ai-issue-2025
