Universities are being urged to safeguard against the use of artificial intelligence to write essays after the emergence of a sophisticated chatbot that can imitate academic work, leading to a debate over better ways to evaluate students in the future.
ChatGPT, a program created by Microsoft-backed company OpenAI that can form arguments and write convincing swaths of text, has led to widespread concern that students will use the software to cheat on written assignments.
Academics, higher education consultants and cognitive scientists across the world have suggested universities develop new modes of assessment in response to the threat to academic integrity posed by AI.