My daughter Adys and I are in the Yucatán peninsula this week, where we will be visiting the Temple of Kukulcan (Structure5B18) at the Chichen Itza archaeological site today (9 June) as well as the ruins at Tulum on Tuesday (10 June). When I get back to blogging in the next day or two, I will begin to explore the dire threat that large language models like ChatGPT pose to the central mission of higher education: critical thinking. In the meantime, below are two versions of the iconic Coldplay hit from the early 2000s “Viva la vida”: