Most of us in higher education are now familiar with generative AI bots, where you formulate a prompt and get a reply. Yet, we are now beginning the advancement to agentic AI, the autonomous 24-7 project manager.
How ChatGPT Encourages Teens to Engage in Dangerous Behavior
Researchers identified tendencies for the chatbot to respond to prompts from fictitious teens by promoting harmful behaviors, as long as users told it the information was for a friend or project.
AI-text-detectors can be evaded using simple tricks in academic writing, as repeatedly shown by folks like Dr Mike Perkins and Dr Mark A.
AI-text-detectors can be evaded using simple tricks in academic writing, as repeatedly shown by folks like Dr Mike Perkins and Dr Mark A. Bassett. Advice for how to do this is abundant on YouTube, in videos aimed at students, viewed millions of times. Some videos are about how to ‘cheat’, but others have more positive titles like ‘how to study with AI’.
Is there any point trying to stop students using AI to write essays? Or even any value to using asynchronous written essays as summative assessments?
New paper from the great Tomas Foltynek and some bloke called Phil Newton
https://rdcu.be/eKCko
University students feel ‘anxious, confused and distrustful’ about AI in the classroom and among their peers
Whether students and faculty are actively using AI or not, it is having significant interpersonal, emotional effects on learning and trust in the classroom.
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ChatGPT: Student insights are necessary to help universities plan for the future
Post-secondary student input about ChatGPT and other AI matters not only for accountability, but also as a savvy way to strategize about the future of higher education.
