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A smaller group has begun integrating AI directly into teaching and assessment.",[],{"type":316,"content":458},[459],{"type":265,"value":460,"marks":461},"At Darden, Harris and his colleagues pushed further.",[],{"type":316,"content":463},[464,467,471],{"type":265,"value":465,"marks":466},"“",[],{"type":381,"value":468,"href":469,"external":28,"marks":470},"We leaned into AI 100% in core strategy,","https:\u002F\u002Fnews.darden.virginia.edu\u002F2025\u002F11\u002F10\u002Fuva-darden-goes-all-in-on-use-of-generative-ai-in-core-strategy-course\u002F",[],{"type":265,"value":472,"marks":473},"” he said. “That made us an outlier.”",[],{"type":316,"content":475},[476],{"type":265,"value":477,"marks":478},"The approach was not universally embraced.",[],{"type":316,"content":480},[481],{"type":265,"value":482,"marks":483},"Darden has confronted similar questions before.",[],{"type":316,"content":485},[486,489,493],{"type":265,"value":487,"marks":488},"In a recent ",[],{"type":381,"value":490,"href":491,"external":28,"marks":492},"conversation reflecting on the future of business education","https:\u002F\u002Fnews.darden.virginia.edu\u002F2026\u002F05\u002F07\u002Fbest-business-school-darden-deans\u002F",[],{"type":265,"value":494,"marks":495},", Dean Emeritus Bob Bruner — a widely respected teacher in the Socratic case method who joined the faculty in 1982 — recalled arriving from Harvard with an Apple II computer.",[],{"type":316,"content":497},[498],{"type":265,"value":499,"marks":500},"“This caused great consternation among my senior colleagues,” Bruner recalled, drawing laughter from the audience.",[],{"type":316,"content":502},[503],{"type":265,"value":504,"marks":505},"He said the memory now echoes in debates over artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.",[],{"type":316,"content":507},[508],{"type":265,"value":509,"marks":510},"“We’d better figure out how to use AI,” Bruner said of Darden, “and I think we will, because we figured out how to use the Apple II computer.”",[],{"type":316,"content":512},[513,515,519],{"type":265,"value":487,"marks":514},[],{"type":381,"value":516,"href":517,"external":28,"marks":518},"blog post","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.darden.virginia.edu\u002Fabout\u002Fleadership\u002Fdeans-office\u002Fspeeches-writing\u002Fon-academic-integrity",[],{"type":265,"value":520,"marks":521}," on academic integrity and AI, Lenox argued that many institutions are still approaching the technology primarily through restriction and enforcement — returning to handwritten exams, proctored testing and software tools designed to detect AI use.",[],{"type":316,"content":523},[524],{"type":265,"value":525,"marks":526},"But Lenox suggested those efforts alone will not solve the problem.",[],{"type":316,"content":528},[529],{"type":265,"value":530,"marks":531},"“We are fooling ourselves if we think that the solution to AI-enabled cheating is stricter rules and enforcement,” he wrote. “The technology will always outstrip our ability to restrain.”",[],{"type":415,"id":533,"level":417,"content":534},"teaching-judgment-not-just-tool-use",[535],{"type":265,"value":536,"marks":537},"Teaching Judgment, Not Just Tool Use",[],{"type":316,"content":539},[540],{"type":265,"value":541,"marks":542},"For Harris, the challenge is balancing “two concurrent objectives.”",[],{"type":316,"content":544},[545],{"type":265,"value":546,"marks":547},"“One objective is still timeless,” he said. “I want students to emerge having genuinely learned something — principles, judgment, expertise.”",[],{"type":316,"content":549},[550],{"type":265,"value":551,"marks":552},"And that means more than simply learning how to write AI prompts.",[],{"type":316,"content":554},[555],{"type":265,"value":556,"marks":557},"“But the other imperative for any relevant and elite business school in today’s world is to prepare students to actually work and thrive in today’s workplace, already saturated with AI tools,” Harris continued. “And that includes an increased understanding of how to interact with AI.”",[],{"type":316,"content":559},[560],{"type":265,"value":561,"marks":562},"For Harris, the real divide is not between students who use AI and those who don’t. 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The responsibility for recognizing the mistake still belonged to them.",[],{"tags":584,"pressContact":592,"bios":622},{"topics":585,"storyType":590},[586,587,588,589],{"id":271,"label":66,"href":67},{"id":273,"label":91,"href":92},{"id":275,"label":97,"href":98},{"id":277,"label":111,"href":112},{"label":591,"href":126},"Article",{"id":593,"heading":594,"body":595,"image":605,"action":613,"contactLabel":615,"contactId":616,"contactName":617,"contactTitle":618,"contactEmail":619},"1JXqEbL3azVV5umnM8ChNj","About UVA Darden School of Business",{"blocks":596},[597,601],{"type":316,"content":598},[599],{"type":265,"value":600},"The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences.",{"type":316,"content":602},[603],{"type":265,"value":604},"Darden's graduate degree programs and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact.",{"src":606,"alt":607,"aspectRatio":608,"width":609,"height":610,"bynderDat":611},"https:\u002F\u002Fimages.darden.virginia.edu\u002Ftransform\u002Fc88de114-fc91-4aa8-b801-2e987f7a4a22\u002FDarden_Spring_Environmental_Spring_25_Saunders_Hall_20","Darden_Spring_Environmental_Spring_25_Saunders_Hall_20","8354 \u002F 5569",8354,5569,{"baseUrl":18,"assetId":612,"name":607},"c88de114-fc91-4aa8-b801-2e987f7a4a22",{"label":614,"href":26,"external":35,"openInNewWindow":35},"Learn More","Press Contact","2KGmVfjHQigGuWjTI4aCKw","Lauren Foster","Senor Director of Communications",{"label":620,"href":621},"fosterl@darden.virginia.edu","mailto:fosterl@darden.virginia.edu",[],{"title":258,"description":262,"image":624},{"src":625,"alt":297,"caption":298,"aspectRatio":626,"width":627,"height":628,"bynderDat":629},"https:\u002F\u002Fimages.darden.virginia.edu\u002Ftransform\u002Fwidescreen-large\u002F573a29bb-e72d-4577-bced-52765d8cf2a0\u002F11429-jpg?io=transform%3Afill%2Cwidth%3A1200%2Cheight%3A630&quality=75","1200 \u002F 630",1200,630,{"baseUrl":18,"assetId":303,"name":297,"preset":304},{"canonicalPath":254,"identity":631},{"id":257,"contentType":237,"title":258,"path":254,"publishedAt":268,"modifiedAt":260,"topics":632,"authors":637,"eligibility":639},[633,634,635,636],{"id":271,"label":66},{"id":273,"label":91},{"id":275,"label":97},{"id":277,"label":111},[638],{"id":280,"label":281},{"searchEngines":28,"followLinks":28,"internalSearch":28}]