UN season is back again. Sophomores are already hard at work researching their countries and compiling their data. UN is a stressful experience for most sophomores. To combat the growing stress, Hendy has agreed to allow usage of Artificial Intelligence to in UN. AI in schools has often been portrayed as negative and unethical, but it can be a wonderful tool to use so students can minimize the amount of time they spend on a project and the amount of stress they have.
AI will be allowed for use throughout the entire UN process. It can be used to find sources, information, create notecards, write essays, and speeches.
This comes as a surprising change for the sophomore class as Hendy has been historically anti-AI in the classroom. He notes the rule change with a change of attitude towards AI involvement in schools.
“Times are a changing,” says Hendy, “it’s time that we adapt to what students want and need.”
The AI shift is a welcome change for sophomores who are already feeling the stress of preparing for UN. It is a very exciting change to the UN process and sophomores are already starting to take advantage of this opportunity.
“I love AI,” said Ruth Aedeo ‘27. “It takes off a lot of the stress to find sources and combine information together. It definitely makes the process much faster.”
“AI is very accurate,” said Hendy. “It is very trustworthy.”
Hendy also wanted to clarify that the AI usage in UN does not interfere with school policy surrounding AI.
“Using AI doesn’t break academic integrity. It is an extension of the students’ ideas” said Hendy.
However, this leaves a sour taste in juniors’ mouths as the change comes a year after their own UN season. Many are feeling upset that they did all the writing and research on their own while this year’s sophomores get to take a back seat and let the AI do the talking.
“I’m definitely mad,” said Kaitlin Moran ‘28. “Why do they deserve it? It just isn’t fair!”
This shift to using AI will make this year’s UN even better and the most exciting and stress free one to date.
