Key points:
- Students will continue to use AI–educators should encourage responsible AI use among students
- Stopgaps to block AI will only negatively impact underserved students who don’t have ready access to the internet at home
- See related article: Is AI the future of education?
- Everything You Need To Know About AI In Education
When ChatGPT was released in November 2022, many educators saw AI as a threat, assuming students were going to use AI to cheat. And they did. But in our haste to identify the pitfalls of generative AI, we have obscured examples of how students have used it to explore new topics, help with projects, and nurture creativity and curiosity.
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