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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by New York Magazine's, the Intelligencer.

Teachers have tried AI-proofing assignments, returning to Blue Books or switching to oral exams. Brian Patrick Green, a tech-ethics scholar at Santa Clara University, immediately stopped assigning essays after he tried ChatGPT for the first time. Less than three months later, teaching a course called Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, he figured a low-stakes reading reflection would be safe — surely no one would dare use ChatGPT to write something personal. But one of his students turned in a reflection with robotic language and awkward phrasing that Green knew was AI-generated.

“We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, director, technology ethics.

“It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast."

 

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by "New York Magazine's", the Intelligencer.

Ethics
media, technology