{"id":189884,"date":"2026-02-23T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/as-ai-booms-mercer-professors-provide-their-take-on-the-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:30:12","slug":"as-ai-booms-mercer-professors-provide-their-take-on-the-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/as-ai-booms-mercer-professors-provide-their-take-on-the-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"As AI booms, Mercer professors provide their take on the technology &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercercluster.com\/article\/2026\/02\/ai-use-mercer-classrooms\">As AI booms, Mercer professors provide their take on the technology &#8211;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercercluster.com\/article\/2026\/02\/ai-use-mercer-classrooms\">https:\/\/www.mercercluster.com\/article\/2026\/02\/ai-use-mercer-classrooms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-23 10:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mercercluster.com\">www.mercercluster.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mercer University has a strict policy on generative AI use in classrooms, but opinions among professors vary substantially.<\/li>\n<li>Engineering department professors and those in data science use AI in research, and Mercer offers a master&#8217;s program in data science.<\/li>\n<li>Some faculty, like English professor Deneen Senasi, argue that AI exploits writers and artists without proper compensation or consent for training data.<\/li>\n<li>Conversely, Computer Science Co-Chair Andy Digh sees AI as an incredible teaching tool and promotes its responsible use.<\/li>\n<li>Psychology Assistant Professor Doyle Tate is strongly against AI use in classrooms, asserting that it hinders learning and critical thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Professors like Senasi are adopting methods to prevent AI use, including banning digital output and requiring physical writing methods.<\/li>\n<li>Despite differing views, all professors agree on the fairness of Mercer&#8217;s adaptable policy regarding AI. <\/li>\n<li>Digh uses a red-yellow-green light metaphor to illustrate acceptable AI use, aligning with Harvard Graduate School of Education&#8217;s advice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI booms, Mercer professors provide their take on the technology &#8211; https:\/\/www.mercercluster.com\/article\/2026\/02\/ai-use-mercer-classrooms Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/mcl\/911fe1c7-a9b4-4c04-854c-b5e64961dec7.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=800&dpr=2&ar=16%3A9&fit=crop&crop=faces","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-189884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189886,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189884\/revisions\/189886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}