Starting this year, all California State University students and faculty will have access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu , a bespoke version of one of the world’s leading chatbots.

Some educators have welcomed the university system’s pivot to artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, the system put out a call for proposals, asking faculty to come up with strategies to integrate AI literacy into the curricula. By May, the CSU received more than 400 proposals. Ultimately, 63 of them were awarded up to $60,000 in grants.

But the system’s investment in AI has not been universally embraced. The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 CSU professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches, denounced the move over concerns about faculty job security. Faculty also ex

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