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How Students Use and Think About Their Use of AI

An article from New York Magazine has been making the rounds this week. (more…)

The Integrity of Academic Integrity Enforcement

The philosophy professor heading up the office at his college that handles student violations of academic integrity, like cheating, is dealing with a seemingly stonewalling upper administration, and needs some help. (more…)

AI Firm: “Start Cheating”

“Start cheating. Because when everyone does, no one is.” (more…)

The Multi-Day In-Class LockDown Browser Essay Assignment (guest post)

Many professors in philosophy and other disciplines believe that having students write take-home essays is important. Essays give students the opportunity to spend a lot of time pondering their topic, with ideas percolating in their brains over days, and students develop and exercise valuable skills throughout the thinking and writing and revising that goes into a g..

One University’s AI Guide for Students, Written with the Help of AI

“When permitted, you can use AI tools for help but not to do the work for you.” (more…)

OpenAI Has Kept Secret an Accurate ChatGPT Detector for Two Years

According to The Wall Street Journal, “OpenAI has a method to reliably detect when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper” but hasn’t released it yet, despite concerns about widespread student cheating on assignments with it, as well as other illicit uses. (more…)

Reviving the Philosophical Dialogue with Large Language Models (guest post)

“Far from abandoning the traditional values of philosophical pedagogy, LLM dialogues promote these values better than papers ever did.” (more…)

Teachers: Was the Semester AI-pocalyptic or Was It AI-OK?

A survey conducted at the end of last year indicated that 30% of college students had used ChatGPT for schoolwork. Undoubtedly, the number has gone up since then. Teachers: what have your experiences been like with student use of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs)? (more…)

The AI Threat, the Humanities, and Self-Cultivation

“The humanities are… a gateway to and instigator of a lifelong activity of free self-cultivation. The changes they provoke in us are not always for the happier, or the more remunerative, or the more civically engaged, but when things go passably well, these changes are for the deeper, the more reflective, and the more thoughtful.” (more…)

Policing Is Not Pedagogy: On the Supposed Threat of ChatGPT (guest post)

“ChatGPT has just woken many of us up to the fact that we need to be better teachers, not better cops.” (more…)

“Am I the unethical one?” A Philosophy Professor & His Cheating Students

“All I did was go to a website that is designed to facilitate cheating and set up a kind of camera to see who visited it.” (more…)

The AI-Immune Assignment Challenge

AutomatED, a guide for professors about AI and related technology run by philosophy PhD Graham Clay (mentioned in the Heap of Links last month), is running a challenge to professors to submit assignments that they believe are immune to effective cheating by use of large language models. (more…)

Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT

“It will be difficult to make an entire class completely ChatGPT cheatproof. But we can at least make it harder for students to use it to cheat.” (I’m reposting this to encourage those teaching philosophy courses to share what they are doing differently this semester so as to teach effectively in a world in which their students have access to ChatGPT. It was origina..

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: GPT-3 Edition

“How to deal with GPT-3-written essays? Instead of scolding students not to use it, we ask them to generate a ten, choose the best one, and explain why. Unless they have a paid account, the word-count limit would make it impossible to use GPT-3 to also generate the explanation…” (more…)

Conversation Starter: Teaching Philosophy in an Age of Large Language Models (guest post)

Over the past few years we have seen some startling progress from Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3, and some of those paying attention to these developments, such as philosopher John Symons (University of Kansas), believe that they pose an imminent threat to teaching and learning (for those who missed its inclusion in the Heap of Links earlier this summer, yo..

Students Have Easy Access to Ghostwriters for Hire — What Should Teachers Do?

Recently, Eric Winsberg (South Florida), as an experiment, tweeted, “Who could I pay to write a five-page essay for me that I need to turn in for my philosophy class?” (more…)

UNC Trying to Fire Jan Boxill

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is trying to fire philosopher Jan Boxill for her role in widespread academic fraud at UNC, according to an Associated Press report:

Steps to terminate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill philosophy professor and former faculty leader Jeanette Boxill started on Oct. 22, the same day that a scathing report into..