How a teacher learned to live with those cheating on a stick systems known as AI chatbots.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. It's almost three years since chat GPT went live to the world.

It quickly became a killer app for students looking to use artificial intelligence either as a helper or a shortcut.

But AI is with us, whether teachers and professors like it or not.

Now the story of one educator who's trying to prepare her students for a world and future careers,

where AI is always a thumb and forefinger away.

I'm Christy Gurdherry.

I am an associate teaching professor of English and director of the Writing Center at Babson

College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

So at Babson, I work with an interdisciplinary group of faculty called The Generator.

And so the generator kind of started in fall

2023, and we just started having conversations around how are these tools impacting what's

happening in the classrooms, in our daily lives. And we got some modest funding. And so we had

over 30 institutions from all around the Boston area that

came together for a day and for the first tea party. We had a session on values-based approaches to

AI. Another session led about leading with like an ethic of care about how AI

detectors tend to flag already marginalized students more often and then also brought in a panel

of students, really blowing up notions that it's just a cheating machine and it's something

for us to work through together.

I kind of have a mantra going with my students now, but I always say like you have to be better than a robot.

So one assignment we do in our first year writing class is called a remediation where students go back to something they'd previously written,

remix it into something new. I had students first just letting AI remediate your work.

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