What current AI-related issues, developments, or decisions do you find especially relevant to contemporary society? Craft a short post to give your classmates an overview of the issues involved and why it’s so important.
I think one of the most popular issues that are being raised by society is the ethical use of AI in the academic or research field. Nowadays, there are so many AI tools that can be used to boost your productivity, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Midjourney. However, the existence of those tools and their use blur the lines around authorship, originality, and intellectual integrity.
In school, with the help of AI, students can now generate a whole essay or a thousand lines of code with just a click. This has raised a serious question about plagiarism, the learning process, or “aigiarism” – the plagiarism using AI. In the workspace, people also raise a debate about whether they should consider AI-generated context as part of the contribution, which could potentially affect the hiring process and performance.
These issues are very important because they create a longstanding assumption about what creativity is. As AI tools are getting easier to access and considering how powerful they are, we urgently need updated policies and education guidelines to ensure that AI can be a righteous tool to enhance human capabilities without replacing human work.
I agree on the importance of the issues. These are some really good points too.
Hi Quoc,
I didn’t know that a term for plagiarism using AI, “Aigiarism”, exists, that’s interesting and highlights the prominence of the issue. I think one of the biggest challenges for teachers in the context of AI use will be to make the learning process needed to stay one step ahead of AI tools as well as to critically assess their output, attractive to students.
You bring up such a crucial point. In my opinion, AI is reshaping how we define creativity and authorship. I agree that clear policies and better education around ethical use are essential. If we can use AI responsibly, it can be a powerful tool for us.
With other scholarly tools such as Grammarly, it is possible to have corrections made to your entire document in a similar way ChatGPT could. Grammarly, though, cannot generate entire essays as you mentioned. Even with workshops that would teach students how to use AI without plagiarizing, do you think it would work? Some students will always try to find the easy way out of an assignment.