The AI revolution in education is causing headaches on both sides of the classroom. Professors are battling machine-generated term papers, while students face false accusations of AI cheating. It’s a mess.
Bloomberg reports paranoia and anxiety in classrooms. Some students are avoiding even innocent tools like Grammarly, fearing the AI police will get them. Neurodivergent students and non-native English speakers are particularly vulnerable to these false accusations.
Here’s the kicker: how do you prove you didn’t use AI when the AI detector says you did? It’s a Kafkaesque nightmare. One student told the Journal she started screen recording herself writing papers just to prove her innocence. Talk about extreme.
But there’s an even bigger question here. If AI can’t reliably distinguish between human and machine-written work today, where are we headed tomorrow? Are we being left in the dust of our own creation?
If the answer is yes, and it appears to be, I have more questions. How do we harness AI’s potential without losing our grip on what makes us uniquely human? And how can we tell the difference?
What do you think? How can we navigate this AI minefield in education and beyond? Let me know in the comments and support my work at jamesbrowntv.substack.com.
On that note, I’m James Brown. Be well.
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