Hypocrite Teachers Are Telling Students Not to Use AI While Using It to Grade Their Work

Teachers are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their work — all while telling their pupils they can't do the same. As the New York Times reports, educators and administrators are using AI for grading papers, tutoring students, and even analyzing their records. For Rhode Island history teacher Jon Gold, using ChatGPT for lesson plans seems like a relatively acceptable use case, and tells his classes about how he uses it for transparency. But at the same time, he tells his students not to use it themselves for essays or research. "I am more pro-AI-literacy than I am pro-AI-use," Gold told the NYT. Jennifer Carolan, herself a former history teacher who founded the AI edtech investment company Reach Capital, insisted when speaking to the newspaper that the technology "is already being used by the majority of teachers and students." That informal figure may be a bit inflated, given that a recently-published survey from the RAND Corporation found that only 25 percent of teach ... Read full article.