It’s something to keep in mind as critics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) seek guardrails to protect education from AI’s genius of freeing us from doing or learning what is no longer necessary. Along these lines software is being written that will “catch” students who turn in papers written by ChatGPT and others like it, though some have simply given up altogether. Take a recent piece by lawyer and engineer Wilson Tsu, who asserts that “AI is destroying higher education” since the “vast majority of students are using” what he claims is “the cheapest, easiest way to cheat ever invented.”
