There isn’t much on here that would be new to teachers. There are mechanical ways to combat use of AI (oral exams, assignments written in class, etc.) but the fundamental problem is that students do not want to make the effort. Ask yourself why. Do you cheat by getting a quick summary of a book you enjoy reading? Do you skip a good 2-hour movie to watch a 5-minute highlights reel? The problem is that students are not taught to value learning but to produce results. Their criterion isn’t to improve themselves but to satisfy requirements, which are themselves merely steppingstones toward getting a degree, which itself is just an instrument to obtain a decent job. There’s nothing wrong with wanting the university to prepare you for a career, but I would prefer that it prepared you for life. If we, as educators, fail to instill a desire to learn and to improve the students’ understanding of the world and of themselves, we must be prepared for them using AI to get through the chore of assignments whose value they do not see. Ultimately, the solution to the AI problem isn’t in stricter rules, detection tools, and harsh punishments — it’s in making studentsts not want to cheat themselves by making the AI do their work for them. Source: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…