Educators report affective costs of AI-related grading, including derealisation, exhaustion, and burnout¶
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q2 i? A writing instructor reported that grading AI-generated essays triggered clinical episodes of derealisation, and other posts named exhaustion and burnout. → Chinomso Nwagboso & Sunday Atuba 2026
Evidence¶
Chinomso Nwagboso & Sunday Atuba 2026¶
Chinomso Nwagboso & Sunday Atuba. (2026). Academic erasure: the disappearance of complexity under AI-supported writing. Teaching in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2026.2707601
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Theme 'Erasure of Educator Efficacy and Wellbeing' built from post P31 (r/Professors) plus codes from sixteen other posts naming affective costs such as 'exhausted' and 'burnout'. The analysis reports "an instructor reporting that grading AI-generated essays now triggers clinical episodes of derealisation"; no prevalence statistics are reported.
"an instructor reporting that grading AI-generated essays now triggers clinical episodes of derealisation"
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Related Claims¶
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Educators report affective costs of AI-related grading, including derealisation, exhaustion, and burnout |
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Educators report affective costs of AI-related grading, including derealisation, exhaustion, and burnout |
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