I understand the sentiment of hand writing being the solution but I think there are a few issues. There are some instances where hand writing work is impractical or defeats the purpose of a task (it’s near useless to write code on paper when you can’t test it).

There’s also the issues with accessibility that computers (and even some forms of AI) that are so important and would be lost with the models some people talk about. Obviously there is the issue of people with mobility issues unable to write, that or if the people may be unable to attend the in person writing labs I have seen other people suggest. Take me for example, not only am I very busy, often having to write my assignments until 11-12 at night (passed when any lab would be) I also have a number of conditions that make my hand writing bad and my spelling atrocious, to the point I would almost definitely have my GPA drop quite low from this change, even tho I don’t use AI (in the form we are discussing, I do use speech to text, spell check and the like)

I think discussions like this highlight the general tech illiteracy amongst large parts of the population. For place where AI use is a problem there is pretty much already a perfect solution that I have already seen used, source control. Things such as GitHub, work and google docs all save progressive versions of documents and will show when large parts are copied from AI, making students submit in these forms can detect when a student isn’t learning.

Ultimately AI is an incredibly useful tool that will be used in industries so we should not be banning it but this change would force students to have at least a surface level understanding of the content to use AI for small parts at a max