Faculty uncertainty and anxiety surrounding the role of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning are high, which may nudge them into oppositional, values-based social groups, Javanbakht said. There’s a lot of fear,” said an English faculty member at a Midwestern college who spoke about the sensitive situation on the condition of anonymity.“There’s already job insecurity,” Stanford said. “There are compensation challenges. There’re moves to unionize. There’s the adjunctification of higher ed.” Now, generative AI tools have left some academics asking, “Do people still value my subject area, my expertise, my discipline? Do people still value learning this in the way I think it should be taught?”
