ChatGPT challenges educators to nd its value

rough drafting stage, and then I have guidelines for how much of the AI can show up in their rough and final drafts,” Dumin said.

Dumin said ChatGPT can become a tool because it has the potential to help people do their work faster and possibly better. However, if it is used as a replacement for actual learning, it becomes a hindrance.

Dumin said there are other concerns, including professor bias and how it might condense language over time.

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Dumin said that ChatGPT can be both a tool and a threat to higher learning, but the main priority is to help students with their critical thinking. Dumin lets her students use it in the classroom for brainstorming, depending on the writing project.

“I think it is super-beneficial for brainstorming. Some of them are using it for the very early

“If somebody goes in and asks AI to write something for them and they feel that the output is ‘standard English,’ then they might choose to use that sort of output instead of their own voice. Also, there is a concern about who gets checked for cheating. If a student perhaps presents in a way that the instructor’s bias would say, ‘Well, you should not be able to write this well,’ that is where professor biases can, unfortunately, play into that,” Dumin said.

This kind of artificial intelligence is still new. Microsoft announced its new AI-powered Bing search engine Feb. 7, and Google announced an

AI chatbot called “Bard” on Feb. 6.

“It is moving so fast. We’re still in the infancy of what it can do, but policies are being updated. We want to take a step back and not just say, ‘we are not going to use this,’ but to really make sure the policies are well thought out and helpful based on where we are now and where we think this might go in the next few years,” Dumin said.