Generative AI already creates lesson plans, grades assignments, advises students and answers learner questions. Much of the interesting work in the coming months will be to design interfaces to adapt the technology to actual work roles in both supportive and possibly in replacement modes. Generative AI already creates lesson plans, grades assignments, advises students, and answers learner questions. And, certainly, generative AI has an important role to play in research. Will it become a formal or informal co-investigator and co-author of research? What status will we give generative AI in higher ed?