Marc Schmitt
Researcher, University of Oxford. Author of "Use AI as a sparring partner, not an oracle" (Nature, 2026) — a comment piece arguing that as generative AI becomes a routine research collaborator, universities need to teach students to challenge it rather than defer to it, and to assess whether students can. Cites a UK survey finding 94% of undergraduates use AI for assessed coursework and a finding that more than half of papers published in 2025 carry linguistic traces of LLMs, against about one in ten in 2023.
the-joy-of-writing follows Schmitt's framing directly: present an argument to an AI system and ask it to prove you wrong, while noting a chatbot cannot replace a human conversation.
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