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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. We are living in the age of AI. And for a while now, chatbots have been helping students take notes during class and put together study guides, make outlines, and summarize novels and textbooks.
But what happens when we start handing over even bigger tasks, like writing entire essays and work assignments, and asking AI to help us figure out what to eat and how to reply to emails? Well, professors say more and more students are using generative AI to write essays and complete homework assignments.
One survey by Pew Research found that about a third of teens say they use it regularly to help with schoolwork. But it's not just students. Professors are also using generative AI to write quizzes, lesson plans, and even soften their feedback. One academic called ChatGPT said, a calculator on steroids. And universities are working to establish guidelines and using software to track AI use.
But some students are now pushing back on that, saying that many of these detection tools are inaccurate. Well, today we're joined by New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill, who has been tracking how AI is reshaping daily life and the ethical gray zones it poses.
Last fall, Hill actually used AI to run her life for a week, choosing what to wear, eat, and do each day to see what the outcome would be. Hill is also the author of Your Face Belongs to Us, a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it. which investigates the rise of facial recognition tech and its disturbing implications for civil liberties. Kashmir Hill, welcome back to Fresh Air.
Hi, Tanya. It's so nice to be here. You know, I was talking with a professor friend recently who said he really is in the middle of an existential crisis over AI. He teaches a writing intensive course called And he actually worries that with these tools, his job might not even exist in a few years.
And so I wanted to know from you, can you give us a sense of just how widespread the use of this generative AI is, how it's become kind of a commonplace on college campuses and schools?
Yeah, I mean, this has been going on for a few years now, basically ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT. You know, students are using ChatGPT a lot to ask it questions, to answer problems, to help write essays. And I talked to professors and they told me, you know, they're very sensitive. sick of reading chat GPTEs because individuals think when they use this tool, it makes them so smart.
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