240. Banning AI in Law School: We've Seen This Before
The University of Chicago Law School announced a new policy for teaching AI with headlines "AI strategy bans phones, laptops in class for first year students." What does history have to say?
When the University of Chicago Law School announced a strict new policy on AI, Steven Sinofsky — who ran Microsoft Office and then Windows — felt a powerful déjà vu. He takes us back to the 1980s, when the same institutions fretted that letting students use word processors would erode real thinking and writing.
A clear-eyed, first-hand reminder that every generation's obvious tool was once someone's existential threat — and that the 'natives' tend to have the last word. Worthwhile ballast for anyone trying to think straight about AI in education.
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