The emergence of artificial intelligence chatbots capable of completing students’ homework will lead to a learning crisis, forcing educators to rethink schooling entirely, a former teacher has said.
“Introducing new artificial intelligence technologies to schools that allow students to automatically generate essays has the potential to explode our entire writing curriculum,” said Peter Laffin, Founder of Crush the College Essay and writing coach, at Fox News. “It might force us to rethink the whole thing from the ground up, and that might end up being a good thing.”
Last week, tech company OpenAI unveiled an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which stunned users with its advanced features. The language model can automatically generate school essays for any grade level, answer open-ended analytical questions, write marketing pitches, write jokes, poems, and even computer code.
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The internet is swirling with predictions of how this sophisticated technology could impact multiple industries and render countless jobs obsolete. But at the forefront of Laffin’s concerns is the impact it will have on education.
“I believe students will be able to use this technology undetected to complete their assignments,” he told Fox News. “It’s going to be harder and harder for teachers to tell the difference.”
Laffin said younger students, in particular, stand to lose the most from chatbots. The same will be true for inner-city schools with lower teacher-student ratios, where instructors know less about their students’ work, making it harder to detect AI use.
“The more readily available this is for young students, the more problems it will create,” Laffin told Fox News.
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A fictional essay prompt entered into OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows that students as young as middle school age can take advantage of this new technology.
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Students who use ChatGPT to complete busy tasks will be less disrupted because “you’re already at a level of sophistication where you understand the content,” Laffin explained. But if younger students are using AI for an assignment like writing a history article, “you haven’t just cheated on a writing exercise, you’ve also gotten it wrong while learning history.”
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The AI-powered ChatGPT has garnered global interest and surpassed one million users in less than a week. It is also the first time that a high-level AI text generator with a user-friendly interface has been made available to the public for free.
Former English teacher Peter Laffin says teachers need to get to know their students’ writing styles and rework homework formats to prevent ChatGPT abuse in their classrooms.
“The fact that this could cause a crisis in education could ultimately work to our advantage,” Laffin said. “Because writing is something we don’t teach very well.”
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The writing coach recommended that teachers evolve their assignments and move away from the traditional five-paragraph essays. Instead, they should create more innovative teaching models, he said.
“Practices in schools always seem a bit behind the latest technology,” Laffin told Fox News. “You can always be sure that the children will be one step ahead of the teachers, so you have to be very vigilant about that.”
To watch Laffin’s full interview, click here.
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