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Larry McNeil

46:18 - 46:46

"Applications that were easily identifiable as being written by artificial intelligence. No human wrote those submissions, you know. And so we faculty, we didn't know what to make about that, you know, at first going, wait a second, this is about creativity and these students are using AI to write these really critical statements. And that was not okay."

“Applications that were easily identifiable as being written by artificial intelligence. No human wrote those submissions, you know. And so we faculty, we didn't know what to make about that, you know, at first going, wait a second, this is about creativity and these students are using AI to write these really critical statements. And that was not okay.”
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Larry McNeil
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Alaska News
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July 21, 2026

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Applications that were easily identifiable as being written by artificial intelligence. No human wrote those submissions, you know. And so we faculty, we didn't know what to make about that, you know, at first going, wait a second, this is about creativity and these students are using AI to write these really critical statements. And that was not okay. You know, that was not all right with us.

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