Don’t ban ChatGPT in schools, but teach with it

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One high school teacher told me that he used ChatGPT to evaluate a few of his students’ papers, and that the app had provided more detailed and useful feedback on them than he would have, in a tiny fraction of the time. “Am I even necessary now?” he asked me, only half-joking.

There are legitimate questions about the ethics of AI-generated writing, and concerns about whether the answers ChatGPT gives are accurate. (Often, they are not.) 

Even ChatGPT’s flaws – such as the fact that its answers to factual questions are often wrong – can become fodder for a critical-thinking exercise.

instead of sharpening their skills by writing essays about The Sun Also Rises or straining to factor a trigonometric expression, today’s students might simply ask an AI chatbot to do it for them.

the work students turn in should reflect cogitation happening inside their brains, rather than in the latent space of a machine learning model hosted on a distant supercomputer.

Tools like ChatGPT are not going anywhere; they are only going to improve, and barring some major regulatory intervention, this particular form of machine intelligence is now a fixture of our society.

Qns: 

1. To what extent is artificial intelligence replacing the role of humans? (Cam. 2019)

2. To what extent has technology had a negative impact on the skill levels of people? (Cam. 2010)

3. Do electronic devices, such as tablets or smart phones, help or hinder students in their studies? (Cam. 'O' lvl 2015)