Episode 304 - Kobayashi Maru GPT (w/ Corey Robin)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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This week, author, political theorist, and professor of political science Corey Robin joins Bad Faith to unpack his recent article about how AI is disrupting how writing is taught across the country. The tech has gotten so good that it's nearly undetectable, and the temptation to cheat on at-home essays is making many teachers consider whether all essay writing should happen in class. But the trade-offs are obvious: Should limited class time be taken up by in-class essays? Is the pedological benefit of at-home essays worth losing dynamic, Socratic in-class learning? What are we trying to teach kids with longform writing assignments anyway? Should we lean in to technological help in writing the way we've all become accustomed to spellcheck? Didn't Captain Kirk teach us that rigging technology to help you ace a test isn't actually cheating at all? Is writing obsolete? Listen to this podcast instead of reading something to find out.
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| 0:16.0 | . All right. So glad to be welcoming back to Bad Faith podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Corey Robin, you know him as a political theorist, journalist, and professor. |
| 0:44.3 | The reason I have asked him back to the podcast today is because he's written a fascinating exploration of some of the most important ethical issues that are being raised by AI in a context |
| 0:55.5 | that hasn't gotten as much attention, I think, as it has, generally speaking. I mean, we've been |
| 1:00.6 | talking about AI, obviously, as a consequence of the writer's strike in Hollywood. We've been talking |
| 1:06.7 | about the implications for visual artists on the internet quite a bit as it's being used to |
| 1:12.1 | generate images based off of other visual artists materials and the ethical implications |
| 1:17.1 | behind that. But I've recently been engaging in conversation with some teachers, very close |
| 1:22.9 | to me, high school teachers, who put me on to this article that you've written, Corey. So I hope to get |
| 1:28.0 | into it today. Welcome to Beth Faith. Thanks for having me back. I'm really happy to be here. |
| 1:33.3 | All right. So the piece that you wrote is in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and it's called |
| 1:38.2 | the end of the take-home essay. Run through for us why you think that we might no longer be instructing students to do |
| 1:48.1 | what so many of us went through and was a real crucible during our high school and undergraduate |
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