Participants in an AI summer camp at California Polytechnic State in San Luis Obispo, Calif., July 28, 2025. 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. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) By MARK ARSENAULT, DAN GOLDSTEIN, ALAN BLINDER and SARAH MERVOSH The worries…
