Some students are using models to help write their papers and do homework, and yes, that is something to worry about. We want students to learn, and if they’re just pasting an assignment into a box and hitting return, they’re not learning much. But that’s a small part of a bigger issue, which is that the students now entering college are likely to graduate into a world transformed by artificial intelligence. Models like ChatGPT are already being integrated into word processing software and search engines. In 10 years, they will be as familiar as autocomplete is to us now. So, telling students “just say no to AI” is not going to be a sufficient way to prepare them for the 2030s. Students will be using these models, and will need to understand them.
