From this piece about the controversial UCLA literature textbook:
Mark Carrigan, a senior lecturer in education at the University of Manchester who wrote the forthcoming book Generative AI for Academics, said in an email to Inside Higher Ed that while the prospect of AI replacing professors isn’t “an immediate threat,” he is concerned “that tasks could be gradually transferred to AI in ways which fundamentally change what it means to be an academic.”
And without developing “clear professional norms around how we use these tools,” Carrigan said, “we risk sleepwalking into an outcome where human scholarship becomes increasingly confined to elite institutions, while the rest of the sector becomes progressively automated in response to financial pressures and institutional incentives.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2024/12/13/ai-assisted-textbook-ucla-has-some-academics
Mark Carrigan 