How AI Is Reshaping Student Writing
AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it
I’m a writing professor who sees artificial intelligence as more of an opportunity for students, rather than a threat.
That sets me apart from some of my colleagues, who fear that AI is accelerating a glut of superficial content, impeding critical thinking and hindering creative expression. They worry that students are simply using it out of sheer laziness or, worse, to cheat.
Perhaps that’s why so many students are afraid to admit that they use ChatGPT.
In The New Yorker magazine, historian D. Graham Burnett recounts asking his undergraduate and graduate students at Princeton whether they’d ever used ChatGPT. No one raised their hand.
“It’s not that they’re dishonest,” he writes. “It’s that they’re paralyzed.”
Students se...