ChatGPT in Schools

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The worst part of going to school is all the homework. Nothing strikes dread in a student’s heart quite like facing down a deadline on a seven-page essay. That’s why some of them may find it tempting to turn those hours of work into a task that can be breezed through in a matter of seconds by an AI-powered app. Generative tools like ChatGPT have wormed their way into the school system, causing panic among teachers and administrators. While some schools have banned the tech outright, others are embracing it as a tool to teach students how to tell the difference between reality and science fiction.

This week, we're bringing you a special show about the perils and opportunities of AI in the classroom. This episode is a collaboration between WIRED and the NPR show 1A. It's the second episode in a series called “Know-It-All,” which focuses on all the ways AI is affecting our world.

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Listen to every episode of Know It All: 1A and WIRED’s Guide to AI. Read more from WIRED about how chatbots are coming for the classroom.

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0:00.0	Hi, Gadget Lab listeners. We're taking a break from our usual show this week. Instead, we're
0:06.0	bringing you a special collaboration between Wired and the NPR show 1A. It's a four-part series called
0:12.6	Know It All, 1A and Wired's Guide to AI. It's about how AI will affect everything, from education
0:20.2	to health care to national security.
0:23.0	The series features conversations with people at the forefront of this AI transformation, and people whose lives are being directly affected by it.
0:32.2	The episode we're sharing here is called Chat GPT in the Classroom.
0:36.6	As you might expect from that title, it's all about how
0:39.1	AI generators are affecting life in schools. After all, what's the point of giving kids essays
0:44.4	as homework if they can just offload their work onto an AI that can generate a response in
0:48.9	seconds? This show features Wired's Pia Seris, as well as professors and teachers dealing with AI in the classroom right now.
0:56.4	You can hear more at 1A's website, the1a.org forward slash series.
1:03.2	We'll have a link in the show notes.
1:05.3	Enjoy the show and stay human.
1:13.4	From WAMU and NPR in Washington, this is 1A.
1:21.2	Hi, I'm Celeste Headley in for Jen White. Today on 1A, we go back to school. Since its launch
1:32.2	last year, ChatGPT has been hailed as a dramatic step forward for AI. But it's also started
1:38.2	an online arms race to invent new tools to detect when students are cheating. And if students see it as a quick
1:45.2	shortcut, what's stopping overworked educators from doing the same? Today we'll look for some answers
1:50.7	to that question and your questions too. Email us at 1a at wamu.org or talk to us using
1:56.9	our app 1A Voxpop.
2:07.6	ChatGPT has become one of the most popular sites online.
2:13.9	More than 100 million monthly users within just two months of its launch last November.
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