Wall uses his background in AI research to employ the set of best practices that he developed to align with the goal of ethical AI use in the classroom. One of his favorites is to ask students to submit a log of the prompts they gave ChatGPT to complete an assignment, which provides a clear window into each student’s problem-solving efforts. When Wall asked his fintech class to build their own chatbots, he was pleased to review the logs and see that no two applications were made with the same methodology. “If you ask ChatGPT to provide ideas for a paper instead of writing it for you, and if you do your own research, write the paper, and ask ChatGPT to clean up the spelling and grammar, then submit it along with all the logs, you’ve probably written the best paper you could while also learning a lot about what a new technology can do for you,” Wall says.
