Erratum and republication: Contemporary cinemeducation: Transdisciplinary exchange at Locarno Film Festival.

Critical thinking is being assaulted by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in manuscript writing, in which the written word is not human-owned and attributed references are hallucinated by AI []. The same can be said of personal statements submitted for residency training. Of note, we may be entering an AI arms race in which applicants are implementing sophisticated methods to deceive residency directors during the interview process through contrivance of the spoken word [-]. The introduction of increasingly sophisticated chatbots predictably resulted in a corresponding surge in the usage of this technology by the public. When it comes to AI, the paradigm of “if you build it, they will come” seems to apply across societal domains []. However, in the process of widespread societal adoption and embrace of AI and its derivative products - broadly defined “generative” tools - an important component of what used to be inherently unique to humans seems to be undergoing atrophy [,]. We have reached the point where the use of echoborgs is coming into play for applicants. An echoborg “is composed of a human whose words, and potentially their actions, that are entirely or partially determined by a computer program" []. This work by Corti and Gillespie over 10 years ago demonstrated how it is possible to embody, or project machine intelligence through a human interface, and such acts can be readily identified [].