The question that faculty in 2024 should be asking is not, “How do we stop our students from using AI?” The much more urgent question should be, “How do we prevent our administrators from paying outrageous sums for AI, or trying to integrate it into any facet of institutional instruction?”
OpenAI also said “it will host a meeting in October with presidents and provosts of leading higher education institutions to discuss how to adopt AI effectively and responsibly in a university setting, including for teaching and advancing academic research.” 😩
(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI has hired former Coursera Inc. executive Leah Belsky to be its first general manager of education, leading the artificial intelligence startup’s efforts to bring its products to ...
This is one of my major concerns at my workplace. Lots of enthusiasm for what AI can produce quickly and not a whole lot of consideration for how it'll change how our institution spends money on resources.
The only good thing is that academia is the last repository of where tech companies try to monetize things when they’ve run out of couch cushions to check.
🖐 (waving/drowning) from UCI, Brian!
Universities: you can't use AI to write assignments, you won't be allowed to use AI to do work in the real world. Also universities:...
I'm taking some classes right now and the professors and their general policy on plagiarism and such, now includes AI. In short students can use it except when specifically prohibited. (really?) Yup. Sad.
Maybe generative ai could replace administrators? Just a thought. They are the ones on campus who already sound most like ai.
How can a mindless synthetic text extruder - which is what ChatGPT is - teach and advance academic research?
Cut the top, cops, and bots. Leave the useful parts of the university alone.
I've been trying to raise awareness for years about TurnItIn scraping student papers and assignments. It's for AI.
Maybe faculty will assuage these concerns with their inertia and reticence. In our soon to be released survey of 3,422 American employees, educators are one of the groups with the lowest current use of AI for their work.