Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well according to a recent article in The Atlantic, educators today are stuck in a kind of sci-fi reality

between students using artificial intelligence to write papers, and artificial intelligence designed

to catch students using artificial

intelligence to write their papers.

See every time a better tool allows teachers to sniff out cheating, a better tool

comes along to evade it.

Long gone are the days of the glorified word processors that are designed to prevent

misspelled words.

At least back then, students still had to do the writing.

If a teacher suspected plagiarism, it was possible to prove it.

But as AI has evolved, so have students options to cheat.

Through AI and chat gpT, every contrived essay is unique,

and that makes it nearly impossible to prove that it came

from a computer rather than a student. And perhaps even more disturbing, teachers

are now getting in on the artificial cheating. Why grade dozens of papers at a time when you can get AI to do it for you?

Look, if it weren't true, it would just be unbelievable.

Papers, written by bots, being graded by bots. It's like programming a video game to play itself and then

claiming to win. Still, this is only the latest expression of an ongoing crisis in modern

education, a crisis aptly described by a Duke University student a while back and was

quoted in Steve Garber's masterful book, The Fabric of Faithfulness.

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