The emergence of AI chatbots that can complete student assignments will lead to a crisis in learning, forcing educators to rethink education entirely, a former teacher has said.
“The introduction of new AI technologies into schools that allow students to automatically generate essays has the potential to blow up our entire writing education curriculum,” Peter Laffin, founder of Crush the College Essay, told Fox News. and writing coach. “It may cause us to have to rethink it from the ground up and that could ultimately be a good thing.”
Last week, the technology company OpenAI unveiled an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which has surprised users with its advanced features. The language model can automatically generate school essays for any grade level, answer open-ended analytical questions, write marketing proposals, write jokes, poems, and even computer code.
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The internet is abuzz with predictions about how this sophisticated technology could impact various industries and render countless jobs obsolete. But at the forefront of Laffin’s concern is the impact it will have on education.
“I think students will be able to use this technology undetected to complete assignments,” he told Fox News. “It’s going to be harder and harder for teachers to be able to tell the difference.”
Laffin said that younger students in particular are at risk of losing the most to chatbots. So will inner-city schools with lower teacher-student ratios, where instructors are less familiar with their students’ work, making it more difficult to detect the use of AI.
“The more easily it’s available to younger students, the more problems it’s going to create,” Laffin told Fox News.
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A simulated test message entered into OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows that students, from high school age, can take advantage of this new technology.
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College students who use ChatGPT to complete work-heavy tasks will be less interrupted because “they’re already at a level of sophistication where they understand the content,” Laffin explained. But if younger students use AI for a task like writing a history paper, “you’ve not only cheated on a writing assignment, you’ve also cheated yourself by not learning history.”
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the powered by artificial intelligence ChatGPT attracted worldwide interest and surpassed one million users in less than a week. It is also the first time that a high-level AI text generator with a user-friendly interface has been made freely available to the public.
Former English teacher Peter Laffin said teachers need to learn their students’ writing styles and rework assignment formats to prevent ChatGPT from being abused in their classrooms.
“The fact that this could cause a crisis in education could ultimately benefit us,” Laffin said. “Because writing is something we just don’t teach very well.”
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The writing coach recommended that teachers evolve their assignments and move away from the traditional five-paragraph essay. Instead, they should create more innovative teaching models, he said.
“Practices in schools always seem to be a little behind the latest technology,” Laffin told Fox News. “You can always be sure that the kids will be one step ahead of the teachers, so there needs to be a lot of vigilance on this.”
To watch Laffin’s full interview, click here.
