“I never asked for the spotlight,” Gibson, who teaches at Alcorn State University, posted on his LinkedIn profile. “I just committed to my calling. When your purpose is bigger than your ego, the platform will find you.”
Indeed, Gibson’s video has not only generated hundreds of thousands of views but coverage in national news outlets and tabloids, such as Today and the New York Post. More importantly, Gibson’s headline-grabbing ploy is fueling the debate about how far faculty and administrators should go to prevent students from using AI to do their coursework and write their term papers.
“I am not a fan of trapping students,” Dr. José Antonio Bowen, author of several books on teaching with AI and a senior fellow at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, told The EDU Ledger. “Good teaching relies on trust.”
Daniel S. Schiff, assistant professor of political science at Purdue University and co-director of the Governance and Responsible AI Lab, had a different take.
“I can't blame this instructor for doing this here,” Schiff said when asked for his response to Gibson’s tactic, which he said educators have been using for years.
“Many institutions are at a breaking point,” Schiff said. “We now have pervasive, severe cases of misconduct, and students skipping historically large portions of work.”
