Artificial intelligence may not be about to replace teachers and college professors altogether, but it is augmenting the way the education sector engages with learning. Robert Seamans, professor of Management and Organisations at NYU Stern School of Business, expects he and his peers will be helped to become better at what they already do by AI tools such as ChatGPT, rather than having their roles taken over.
“They won’t give you the answer but they will help you reason through the problems you’re working on,” he says. However, he is concerned about plagiarism as a result of the use of language models. “Cheating is not a new problem but we have made it explicit that you cannot turn in generative AI-produced work,” he explains. Seamans has started using ChatGPT to help speed up his writing process.