Two years ago, Scott Latham, a business professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, was one of academia’s leading voices of the resistance to artificial intelligence.
“AI is not your friend,” he wrote in a June 2024 editorial for Inside Higher Ed, imploring faculty to “pump the brakes on artificial intelligence in higher education,” lest robots take their jobs in the not-so-distant future.
But as the technology has evolved, so has Latham’s view on it. “For everyone who works in higher education, there is a great deal of pain and disruption to come,” he wrote in an editorial for The Chronicle of Higher Education in April 2025. “We can minimize the damage, though, by helping people understand how AI will transform higher education.”
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