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This is a recurring cycle. Teresa Sullivan, a former president of the University of Virginia, was targeted (ultimately unsuccessfully) for removal in 2012 in part because of her insufficient enthusiasm for massive open online courses (MOOCs)—more specifically, because she doubted the financial analysis UVA’s board of visitors drew from a David Brooks op-ed. So, when we talk about what work AI does on campus, we should be alert to not just what code is written with Claude or what spreadsheets are cleaned with Gemini but also what political and economic functions the technology serves within our institutions—and for whom.