University of Michigan community members gathered on the Diag Tuesday to hear from six students and faculty about the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and in other contexts. The event, titled “Artificial Intelligence: Is It a Good Thing?,” is the second this semester in the Political Speech and the Public Square series, which is sponsored by the University’s Faculty Senate and aims to share a broad range of informed views on important campus issues.

In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Derek Peterson, Faculty Senate chair and event organizer, said the discussion serves in part to provide a contrast to the University’s full-fledged embrace of generative-AI technology with healthy community debate.

“My feeling as Senate chair is to say that the University’s been ov

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