The rapid improvement of generative AI tools has led many of my peers to proclaim that higher education as we know it has come to a crashing and shocking end. I agree.

In my large-enrollment general education course at the University of Florida, I can no longer assign an essay asking students to state their views on genetic engineering and assume the responses I receive are written by humans. So the critical question we must ask as academics is, “What do we do now?”

Rather than try to create assignments that AI cannot tackle, I propose we develop assignments that embrace AI text generation.

We don’t want to ignore the 54 percent of students who use AI at least weekly in their course assignments, according to the Digital Education Council. We don’t want to ban AI. And even when we, as educators, try to trick AI tools, newer versions of ChatGPT just come along to thwart that strategy.

With this in mind, I modified the final assignment in........

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