In the first phase of the most popular AI platform, ChatGPT, we witnessed its use by millions of students who have ChatGPT write research papers and summaries for them, do automatic translations, or use the platform to pass exams without having prepared and therefore without the necessary skills.
To avoid the diseducational effects of these practices, universities in northern Europe are returning to oral examinations.
What about the awkward position of teachers in such a context?
Conversational chatbots that mimic the role of the lecturer are spreading, with the obvious goal of replacing them. Some influential observers, including Bill Gates, have begun to declare that lecturers will soon be replaced by Artificial Intelligence.
All this has resulted in an objective conflict between AI and the educational community, which is largely reacting with much distrust and often opposing the use of AI technologies in the school context, with an at times Luddistic attitude.
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