ChatGPT-wary universities in the US scramble to prepare for new school year

ChatGPT set the academic world ablaze after it was introduced in November, when the AI chatbot suddenly gave students a hard-to-detect shortcut for completing essays and assignments.

“It’s moving so quickly,” said Eric Fournier, director of educational development at Washington University in St. Louis. The software represents one of the biggest shifts in the tech world in decades, bringing a trillion-dollar opportunity, which makes it all the harder for schools to ban or ignore it.

At the University of Southern California, business professors are experimenting with “TA chatbots” that will help answer logistical questions about the class syllabus. In some cases, professor-approved AI is spreading beyond the computer lab. At the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school, Ethan Mollick was one of the first educators to add an AI policy to his syllabus.

At Washington University and the University of Southern California, the use of AI in classrooms still remains within the professor's discretion.

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