Generative AI has many exciting benefits for the education sector but also poses opportunities for misuse. Here’s how to adapt — emphasizing reasoning, step-by-step thinking, and ethical AI

Skanda Vivek

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Jul 31, 2023

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Key Takeaways

• Educators must think about whether to try to control or adapt to the new technology to minimize cases of misuse.
• Suggested solutions such as watermarks and classifiers (that identify AI-generated content) are flawed, and there is no obvious solution to this challenge.
• Course policies that ban products like ChatGPT would be difficult to enforce and also deprive students the opportunity to learn about a powerful technology that will be a significant part of society going forward.
• Therefore, instructors must adapt by emphasizing student reasoning and step-by-step thinking in coming up with answers or testing student mastery of course concepts. Reasoning is where humans shine and generative AI often fails making it a weakness that educators can exploit to reduce the likelihood of misuse.
• New updates to OpenAI show promise for crafting a game-changing high level language that will allow for more unstructured queries…