At a time when AI threatens to undermine a generation’s capacity to read, write, and think, we believe that human faculty should be in charge of student learning. Students largely agree, as do other educators. But administrators at Miami University do not seem to.

At Miami, where faculty and librarians are negotiating our second contracts, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a central sticking point. The Faculty Alliance of Miami, AAUP-AFT, Local 375 (FAM), the union representing nearly 800 full-time continuing faculty and librarians, is fighting for reasonable protections, including that we cannot be replaced by AI.

In this year’s contract campaign, we have introduced exceedingly reasonable language around AI, simply asking management to commit to the following:

1. Don’t replace faculty or librarians with generative AI.
2. Don’t evaluate faculty or librarians using generative AI.
3. Notify us of any planned use of AI that impacts our teaching or research.

The university has rejected our language twice as of this writing, showing no interest in keeping human faculty and librarians front and center in student learning.

Please help FAM protect the student-faculty relationships that are crucial to motivated and engaged human learning. Write to President Crawford and the Board of Trustees to negotiate with faculty and librarians to ensure that human pedagogy remains core to the student experience at Miami.