Educators are trying to strike a balance between embracing new, potentially biased AI tools and preserving the integrity of learning. by Aaricka Washington

This new school year, Jordan Clayton-Taylor, a Chicago high school English teacher, said she’s going old-school. When it comes time to write an essay, her students will have to close the Chromebooks and use pen and paper instead.

It’s a preemptive strike of sorts: Clayton-Taylor is instituting the policy after realizing last year that students were copying and pasting prompts into ChatGPT, then turning in the result as though it were their own work. And just as teachers insisted that cheating hurts the cheater, Clayton-Taylor worries that artificial intelligence chatbots are eroding students’ ability to think for themselves.

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