How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education

Here connected Decoder, we’ve talked a batch astir generative AI, which is simply a precise large thought that is causing rather a fewer problems. One happening we support proceeding astir implicit and implicit again is that generative AI is causing a batch of problems successful schools.

A batch of radical retired there, including galore of the listeners of this amusement who email us, are disquieted astir the evident problem: students utilizing ChatGPT to cheat connected assignments — and yes, immoderate students decidedly do.

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But erstwhile our squad poked astatine the story, we recovered that the issues with AI successful acquisition spell a batch deeper, to the precise doctrine of acquisition itself.

The Decoder squad talked to a batch of teachers — you’ll beryllium proceeding galore of their voices passim this occurrence — and we kept proceeding 1 communal taxable from galore of them: What are we adjacent doing here?

As 1 instructional decorator you’ll perceive says, “If this exertion becomes much ubiquitous, we’ll person courses created by AI, graded by AI, with submissions from students perfectly generated by AI. So it begs the question: What are we adjacent doing present successful higher ed?”

Every teacher is having a antithetic acquisition with AI successful the classroom, and with their students, but the communal thread is that a batch of those experiences feel bad. A fewer teachers who talked to america find tools similar ChatGPT are helping their workflow, but a definite bulk is facing those heavy existential questions.

Luckily, determination are radical whose occupation it is to beryllium experts successful acquisition and acquisition technology, to probe what’s going connected successful a much elaborate way. So I sat down with Dr. Adam Dubé, from McGill University, to speech astir however generative AI is fitting into acquisition close present and wherever each of this mightiness beryllium going successful the future.

If you’d similar to work much astir what we discussed successful this episode, cheque retired these links:

• A bulk of precocious schoolhouse students usage gen AI for schoolwork | College Board
• About a 4th of teens person utilized ChatGPT for schoolwork | Pew Research
• Your encephalon connected ChatGPT | MIT Media Lab
• My students deliberation it’s good to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re connected to something. | Vox
• How children recognize and larn from conversational AI | McGill University
• File not Found | The Verge

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