AI Conversation Shaper

Theresa D’Entremont

The Peer Review Apr 2025 web Open Access

AI Conversation Shaper

Theresa D’Entremont

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We all know that the budget for an institution’s Writing Center is not the same as the budget for a Division 1 Football team. Recently, the other tutors and I at the Mary G. Walsh Writing Center at Salem State University got an email that we always dread: “We don’t have the budget for all of the tutors that we have put into the schedule. Can anyone lower the amount of hours they asked to work this semester?” Because the Writing Center does not have the biggest budget in the institution, it is always a struggle to sustain operations budgetarily. Those in charge of the Writing Center spend a lot of their time trying to get more money from administration and writing grants just to keep the place running. Like a lot of industries, it is a worry that the administration will find AI to be cheaper than hiring human tutors. It will be much cheaper just to have one chatbot to service many students and have the IT department keep it running. It is true that AI can be used to tutor people today. However, the AI takeover will not be anytime soon (Khan, 2024). Nevertheless, that fear has already made it to those in the Writing Center. Just because it is not going to happen this semester or next semester, does not mean that it will never happen. At some point it will be cheaper to get a chatbot up and running instead of paying all of the student tutors (Svanberg et. al., 2024). This is something that a lot of industries will have to grapple with eventually, including writing centers. Keywords : Writing Center, AI, Budgets, AI Takeover

Journal: The Peer Review
Published: 2025-04
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Topics: writing centers
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