Educators Worry About Students Using Artificial Intelligence to Cheat
Ask students: What is ChatGPT? When was ChatGPT released? How are some students using ChatGPT to cheat?
A view of ChatGPT's homescreen with descriptions of what it can do.
January 25, 2023
Ask students: What is ChatGPT? When was ChatGPT released? How are some students using ChatGPT to cheat?
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New York City public schools blocked access to the popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. Educators are concerned that students could use this technology to write papers – the tool wasn’t even a month old when a college professor in South Carolina caught a student using it to write an essay in philosophy class. For a transcript of this story, click here.
How do you think schoolwork and school assignments such as writing projects could be best adapted to increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence?
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Republished with permission from PBS NewsHour Classroom.