The new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot known as ChatGPT is poised to have an outsized effect on the educational landscape, for better or for worse.
Which outcome it will lead to is largely in the hands of parents, educators, and—ultimately—our children, and how they respond to it.
To ignore it is to do so at one’s own risk.
Cheating is now exponentially easier, quicker, and less costly; and also far lower risk, as ChatGPT’s output isn’t very traceable, and the software meant to combat such things has much catching up to do. (Even the makers of ChatGPT, OpenAI, find that their best tool for detecting AI writing is only able to spot it 26 percent of the time.)…