The New York Times Across American universities, the hodgepodge of policies created to respond to artificial intelligence reflects substantial confusion about how to proceed with some clear dos and don’ts, but often a lot of wiggle room for faculty and students to figure it out on their own. The worries that artificial intelligence is degrading education have been building for months. Students are using it for everything, including cheating, and a recent report out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said it is triggering “cognitive surrender.” Many university leaders are…