Imagine this: The year is 2035.

You work for a news-based website, and you're looking to hire writers for a new feature that you all are rolling out. Your site is about to offer expert, well-researched opinion pieces on a variety of topics related to politics and international relations. Your job is to hire three full-time people for this initiative.

Resume One looks classically strong. This person majored in journalism at an elite school, and they graduated with a strong GPA. As you peruse this application, you recall that this particular school has been in the news lately for issues surrounding academic dishonesty. You do a quick Google search and you find a story about how the president of the university recently stepped down after being called out on plagiarism, as well as the use of ChatGPT to write their speeches. A professor at this same school recently made headlines when they admitted that their process for grading papers is to paste them into an AI prompt for feedback and a grade, and a group of students in a writing-intensive journalism class successfully petitioned the administration to require the professor to extend the deadline for an important writing assignment because ChatGPT was down the day before the initial due date.

You look back at that resume and you wonder. Did this student learn anything in their four years at this elite university? Did they do the work that warrants such a high GPA? Can this student write well? Did the professors who taught this student hold extremely high standards regarding the use of generative AI? People are starting to refer to this traditionally prestigious school as ChatGPT University. Hmm.

Next, you check out Resume Two. It looks pretty typical. This person also double-majored in journalism and English. And also........

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