Forget AI, students are already cheating their way through exams

Forget AI, students are already cheating their way through exams

College professors like to fondly recall the days before ChatGPT. And, as you listen to them wax eloquent, you could be forgiven for thinking that AI has only just made cheating a widespread problem at American universities. But, ChatGPT hasn’t sparked a new surge of cheating – that began years ago, during the pandemic, when colleges moved their assignments online. Digital exams were born of necessity, but they have endured because of convenienc…

Why should your students do the work?

Most philosophy teachers we know have adopted strikingly defensive positions on AI use in their classes. One faction—call them Luddites—rejects these novel “labor-saving” technologies altogether. After all, many students are just copy/pasting dubious-quality AI output without internalizing anything. In response, Luddites often end up reinstituting in-class essays for students who may never again write out […] The post Why should your students do…