> And if no one reads the original material, the class discussion is a complete waste of time, with everyone bringing up the same trite points, and the whole exercise becomes a facade.

If reading an AI summary of readings is all it takes to make an exercise a facade, then the exercise was bad to begin with.

AI is certainly putting pressure on professors to develop better curricula and evaluations, and they don’t get enough support for this, imho.

That said, good instruction and evaluation techniques are not some dark art — they can be developed, implemented, and maintained with a modest amount of effort.