I first encountered Jan Burzlaff’s work in the pages of The Sun. He responded, “My thinking evolved as AI became more embedded in everyday academic life.”The core reason underpinning Burzlaff’s principles is that ChatGPT cannot successfully render the complexity of Holocaust survivor testimony. The popularity of Burzlaff’s research despite its slipperiness tells a bleak story about the state of higher education. It is not that Burzlaff’s principles are necessarily wrong. In the age of AI, we must continue to demand rigorous research and academic integrity from our scholars, just as we demand it from our students.
