Predictive tools colloquially called “AI” have been the main watercooler topic for fiction writers for a while now. I have friends I love and respect who have found interesting ways to incorporate these tools into their creative processes, but most writers I know (including some of those same writers) are very concerned about the ethics of how some of the tools are trained, and the possible labour effects.

But for me, it wasn’t writing but teaching that really caused a switch to flip in m...