To ban or embrace ChatGPT? Local teachers fight AI with AI -- or don't

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EVERETT — Several times in the past year, Snohomish High School teacher Kathy Purviance-Snow has suspected students of using artificial intelligence to do their homework.

Her district uses Turnitin, a software that detects what percent of an assignment has been plagiarized or made with generative artificial intelligence. Purviance-Snow, a civics and business teacher, gets suspicious at anything above 25%. When the score is above 50%, she strongly suspects AI misuse.

Or as older generations might call it: cheating.

One year after OpenAI released its chatbot ChatGPT, schools in Snohomish County are looking for ways to promote and enforce academic honesty as cheating has become easier than ever.

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1. Need to insert more responsibility into this whole process of students and others being evaluated, as this

issue becomes more and more pronounced (using this to cheat). Develop a more aggressive testing process (it'll take far more time to evaluate students and others (job applicants etc.) for job positions). Keep students in the class and test them there. Test more often.

All this reminds me of, is when my instructors back in the day forbid us to have a calculator in class during testing. Most people now-a-days would say 'WHAT!' (and calculators are a given now).

Also, I've heard of some businesses hiring people w/o the testing, w/o the usual application crap as most job applicants completes, and ride w/ the hiring decision on the spot. A decision is now made on whether the decision to hire or not is made while on the job.

People if they get caught cheating, using these tools, should be disallowed from proceeding forward. There must be a penalty for cheating.

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2. Another point, I hope.

Another thought.

Perhaps teachers should begin educating themselves on teaching students to responsibly incorporate AI into their schoolwork. I once had a colleague in the early days of computers who told me he was offended by my support of using computers to complement chemical research. He thought I was saying computers could replace his genius in chemical synthesis. And I was not but today I think he would tell you that computers have become an integrated and necessary component of research in all areas of life. Early forms of "AI" have been a part of this.

So, what should education evolve into as AI becomes as common as cell phones and is an enabler of many things but not a "replacement" of human talent? It will be a part of their world and they will be expected to know how to use it to solve their or their employer's problems.