ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence and Teaching

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence  chatbot that can respond to textual prompts with texts of various lengths, so  it can—among other things— write papers for students. The article below from the Chronicle of Higher Education provides an overview of how this and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies may impact your teaching.

Teaching: Will ChatGPT Change the Way You Teach? (Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 2023)

Below is a list of resources shared by Emory faculty that we will continue to update.

• Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT (Medium, Dec 2022; shared with us by Delia Lang in the School of Public Health). This article offers some specific ways to address the impacts of this technology on your class, your assignments, and your syllabus.
• Artificial Intelligence Writing (University of Central Florida faculty center; shared with us by Matthew Aron in Teaching and Learning Technologies). This article gives more information about the software and helps the reader to think about how to approach it as they continue to teach.
• Resources for exploring ChatGPT and higher education (Bryan Alexander, Dec 2022) 
• A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay (NPR, Jan 2023) 
• Emory in the news: ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices and networks (NBC News, Jan 2023) 
• Thoughts on AI’s Impact on Scholarly Communications? An Interview with ChatGPT (The Scholarly Kitchen, Jan 2023) 
• ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now (Inside Higher Ed, Jan 2023). This article recommends that in order to harness the potential and avert the risks of OpenAI’s new chat bot, academics should think a few years out, invite students into the conversation and—most of all—experiment, not panic.
• Practical Responses to ChatGPT (Montclair State University Office for Faculty Excellence, Jan. 2023)
• Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach (New York Times, Jan 2023)
• For an example assignment for students to learn about ChatGPT that highlights acceptable uses, see Unit 1: Assignment #6 in the Open-Access Active-Learning “Psychological Effects of the Internet” Course by Morton Ann Gernsbacher, PhD.
• Can AI detectors save us from ChatGPT? I tried 3 online tools to find out (ZDNET, Jan 2023)
• If you still aren't sure what ChatGPT is, this is your guide to the viral chatbot that everyone is talking about (Featuring Emory law professor Matthew Sag, Business Insider, Jan 2023)