Letter from the Editor

Editorial| August 01 2023 Letter from the Editor Mary Ann Irwin Mary Ann Irwin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (3): 1. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mary Ann Irwin; Letter from the Editor. California History 1 August 2023; 100 (3): 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search On this last day of Spring, the sun is shining, a brisk wind riffles the trees, my summer classes are well underway, and the President of the United States is experiencing two of California’s most notable features: tourism and technology. After a night at an historic Nob Hill hotel, he meets with experts in artificial intelligence to discuss its potentials for profit and peril. As an educator, I worry less about ChatGPT than I do the gig economy, both of which I have experienced first-hand. Do my students use AI to write their papers? Absolutely. Many of those who write their own work will still use a San Francisco-based artificial-intelligence program to check their grammar and spelling. (Dinosaurs like me will remember using 1990s word-processing programs that corrected punctuation, spelling, and sentence construction.) My hands remain unwrung. No matter how AI has evolved, nor how it evolves going forward, it... You do not currently have access to this content.