Professor just reached out to ask why I'm not showing up on the roster.... gee, you think *maybe* the AI you are forcing on us might have something to do with it?

This was my response to her generic ass email about the roster after last week's confrontation in class:

I have been in increasing moral distress over your requirement for us to use an AI chatbot for the upcoming project, to the point where it was negatively affecting my time outside of class, both in school and at home.  

I had held on to hope that you would offer an alternative for anyone who did not want to use AI (regardless of their reasons), even though you scoffed when the subject of being against AI was brought up on the first day; you also expressed having an empathic mindset, so I continued to hope.

On Friday, after speaking with an Advisor and the Dean of Students about my distress over this issue, I decided to drop your class while I could still get a refund; choosing to be pragmatic rather than taking on a battle I might lose. Not only that, it would also be a battle with a teacher, someone I want as a trusted mentor, not an adversary; it wouldn’t be healthy or productive for either of us.

More importantly, I will not stay in a class where I feel unsafe. Being forced to act against my core beliefs to remain in this course is not a viable learning environment for me. It is my responsibility, to myself, to retain my integrity on this matter; so I did what I had to do to move forward with a clear conscience.

OP context note: the class is Social Psychology and she wanted us to use "her" chatbot that "she built" to ask it psychology questions for situations. Fuck that. She also openly scoffed, not just on that first day, she also laughed belittlingly about the reasons myself and another student were giving for not wanting to use it. Only one person in the class was keen on using it, but only two of us were willing to speak up over it, and as far as I know, I am the only one willing to leave over it.