Let's Talk: AI in Education: Fear, Hallucinations, and Bias

Instructions:

Look into the color-coded question areas listed below. Make three short posts/essaysabout the AI in Education: Fear, Hallucination, and Bias reading. Your posts should be substantive and each should be at least 150 words in length. Draw on information and expert testimony from the reading/viewing assignments to support your observations.

Links to AI in Education: Fear, Hallucinations, and Bias

Read (or watch) three of the following resources on the fears AI has brought to education as well as its potential for hallucinations and bias:

Watch

1) "Cheating or Learning? Walking the AI Tightrope in Education"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEtAfbFr6RE&t=3s

2) "Educators Worry about Students Using Artificial Intelligence to Cheat" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L7dCa0cZS4

3) "Bias in AI Is 'More Than a Glitch'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNN_Z6ezfAA

4) "AI Is Dangerous but Not for the Reasons You Think" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdVDhOGqoE

Read

5) The College Essay Is Dead by Stephen Marche

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/

6) On ChatGPT: A Letter to My Students by Russell P. Johnson

https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/chatgpt-letter-my-students

7) Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI's hallucination problem fixable? by Matt O'Brien

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-hallucination-chatbots-chatgpt-falsehoods-ac4672c5b06e6f91050aa46ee731bcf4

8) How AI could perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases in society

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188739764/how-ai-could-perpetuate-racism-sexism-and-other-biases-in-society

9) ChatGPT in Education: The Pros, Cons and Unknowns of Generative AI by Suchi Rudra

https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2023/03/chatgpt-in-education-generative-ai-perfcon

10) Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere A.I. models all make stuff up ? here's which is worst by Hayden Field

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/17/which-ai-is-most-reliable-meta-openai-anthropic-or-cohere.html

11) AI cheating is hopelessly, irreparably corrupting US higher education by Mark Massaro

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4162766-ai-cheating-has-hopelessly-irreparably-corrupted-us-higher-education/

NOTE: Please do not recopy the questions with your posts. It should be clear from your answer which question you are addressing. Make sure to address one or two questions with well-developed answers rather than giving hasty replies to all of the listed questions.

Answer the following (make sure to write separately each color-coded questions)

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"A Dangerous Tool" Address one or two of the following questions in your post: --Are educators and educational institutions overreacting to student use of generative Al like ChatGPT? --Are educators' fears about rampant cheating with generative Al valid? --Is ChatGPT "a potentially dangerous tool" as Professor Darren Hick says in the PBS News Hour video? --What are some of the concerns that Russell P. Johnson raises about the use of Al chatbots like ChatGPT in writing and education in his letter to his students? How can these concerns be addressed? "A Dangerous Tool" Address one or two of the following questions in your post: --Are educators and educational institutions overreacting to student use of generative Al like ChatGPT? --Are educators' fears about rampant cheating with generative Al valid? --Is ChatGPT "a potentially dangerous tool" as Professor Darren Hick says in the PBS News Hour video? --What are some of the concerns that Russell P. Johnson raises about the use of Al chatbots like ChatGPT in writing and education in his letter to his students? How can these concerns be addressed?