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"Schools and universities are panicking about artificial intelligence (AI) and
cheating. But AI presents far more significant threats to equity in education.
Fears of cheating typically arise from concerns about fairness. How is it fair
that one student spends weeks labouring over an essay, while another asks
ChatGPT to write the same thing in just a few minutes? Fretting about giving
each student a “fair go” is essential to maintaining the idea of New Zealand as
an egalitarian country.
But as with the myth of the “American dream”, the egalitarian narrative of New
Zealand masks more pernicious inequities like structural racism and the housing
crisis, both of which have an outsized – and decidedly unfair – influence on
today’s students.
These persistent inequities dwarf the threat of cheating with AI. Instead of
excessive hand wringing about cheating, educators would benefit from preparing
for AI’s other inequities, all of which are showcased in OpenAI’s latest large
language model (LLM): GPT-4."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
