Our Duty of Care in the Age of AI

Summary

Course purposes and faculty working conditions belong together.

Watkins distinguishes independent drafting, critical study of AI and advanced experimentation across his courses. He argues that institutions owe faculty time, training and support rather than merely delegating consequential choices.

A department can ask whether each boundary follows a learning purpose, and who carries the work of making it real.

“Duty of care” is the author’s normative proposal.