Learning with A.I. – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

I remember the moment I knew my approach to student use of artificial intelligence was not working. Early in a meeting at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus last fall, a philosophy professor, arms crossed over his chest, told me he’d tried one of the strategies my office had suggested — talking with his students about the ways A.I. could interfere with their learning — and it hadn’t worked. His students had listened politely, then several of them had used A.I. to write their papers anyway. He particularly wanted me to know that “even the good students,” the ones who showed up to class wanting to talk about the readings, were using A.I. to avoid work outside class. ….[READ]