Thinking about my future job as a teacher, I believe AI becomes too much, for example, when AI-composed homework and papers are corrected by AI. By that, I don’t mean that AI can’t be used as an assistive tool at all, but it is about the extent to which one uses it. Personally, I think it becomes too much when you have it compose or correct whole assignments without reflecting on the topics and outputs yourself. Having AI tools compose whole papers is clearly too much because, as we have discussed in class, and as is argued by Tang et al. (2023), as of now, AI tools are non-legal entities, meaning they cannot be granted authorship and, thus, cannot take responsibility for their outputs. Additionally, most LLMs still do a poor job of referencing sources, therefore running risk of plagiarizing (Tam et al., 2023; Tang et al., 2023).

Overall, I feel clear guidelines, for example, on how to cite which kind of AI use, would be necessary to increase transparency. Nevertheless, as is the case with other tools, like Grammarly or even ghostwriters, guidelines would still not guarantee responsible and appropriate use. After all, it will still be up to the author to declare AI use honestly, while the reader has to form their own judgment of a text.

Here’s an example from Austria, which highlights the lack of knowledge of, as well as guidelines for, AI use. In 2015, the “Vorwissenschaftliche Arbeit”, a “pre-scientific paper” all students graduating from high school were required to write during their last school year, was introduced. Because of the fast development of AI and teachers’ inability to assess whether students’ work was written by AI or the students themselves, the Ministry of Education decided to remove this requirement for graduation. Many politicians have criticized this decision, stating that completely abandoning the pre-scientific paper should not be the solution. Rather, it should be discussed how AI can be incorporated appropriately to enhance student learning.

Sources:

Die Presse (Austrian Newspaper). Vorwissenschaftliche Arbeit soll abgeschafft werden.https://www.diepresse.com/18532278/vorwissenschaftliche-arbeit-soll-abgeschafft-werden

Tam, W., Huynh, T., Tang, A., Luong, S., Khatri, Y., & Zhou, W. (2023). Nursing education in the age of artificial intelligence powered Chatbots (AI-Chatbots): Are we ready yet? Nurse Education Today, 129, 105917. https:// doi. org/ 10. 1016/j. nedt. 2023. 105917

Tang, A., Li, K-K., Kwok, K. O., Cao, L., Luong, S. & Tam, W. (2024). The importance of transparency: Declaring the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in academic writing. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 56, 314–318. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12938 15475069, 2024, 2, Downloaded from https://sigmapub