I posted this on my LinkedIn but thought it'd be helpful for you to share with your students as well - The timing of this post is pretty fitting where recently, a Brown professor just caught his entire class cheating on a take-home midterm with AI as the scores were suspiciously high across the board (link below). And this is unfortunately not surprising at all. AI has become such an insanely powerful tool. What used to take months now takes days. What took days now takes hours. And what took hours now takes minutes. But it's such a double-edged sword because there's a version of using AI that builds you, and yet, there's a version that quietly hollows you out. The difference is whether you've developed the underlying logic, reasoning, and judgment to actually know when AI is right, when it's wrong, and when it's leading you somewhere you shouldn't go. Here's something I told one of my former students a while back that I think captures this better than anything else I could write: "I could just tell you which resources to use. But it's actually far more important that I teach you how to find them yourself. So spend no more than 15–30 minutes researching intro business and entrepreneurship courses, look at what competitions like Diamond Challenge or Blue Ocean actually require, send me what you find, and more importantly, your process for finding it. The goal isn't the answer. The goal is sharpening your ability to research, apply judgment, and make decisions. I can course correct quickly if needed. But you have to do the work first." The reason I did this, and the reason I've always done this with students and and employees in the past is that the answer itself is rarely what builds trust. It's the depth behind the answer. The reasoning. The anticipation of the next question before it's even asked. That's what made families trust me with some of the most important decisions of their children's lives. Not because I gave them a recommendation, but because by the time I was done explaining it, they understood with great detail exactly why it's right.