AI and the Future of Education

Chapter 1Embracing AI in Education

In response to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), during the 2022–2023 school year, educators voiced concerns over plagiarism, cheating, and the futility of many of their traditional assignments. Suddenly, within minutes, students could generate essays that were hard to tell apart from human writing. Conventional plagiarism detection methods became obsolete as generative AI produced individual responses for each student. Some teachers scrambled to modify their assignments to keep up with the changes, while others were unaware of the newfound technological developments.

While the issue of academic integrity was pertinent in the months following the advent of these new technologies, the ...