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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STEM faculty here so don't have to error about AI-written essays turned in by students. One way to fight AI is to limit assignments to no more than 10% of the total grade (tell students their effort doing lowly-weighted assignments will pay off during exam and make that true) and make in-class midterm and final exams the remaining 90%. If the class has individual/group projects/labs that are hands-on, then AI can't do much. If they are "take home" and are merely much more difficult assignments, it'll be harder to catch but fortunately few classes I teach have those types of projects. So far, my TAs have told me some students did use AI because sometimes the techniques and mathematical notations they used to do assignments were not the ones covered in class. It's unmistakeable. It's also sad and depressing to see and I'm sure those in the humanities have seen it much worse. I remember this phrase from a professor to students that went viral recently: "I cannot want to learn this more than you" which I completely agree.[/quote]
This sounds miserable.[b] Might as well go to school in Europe.[/b][/quote]

It is no different in Europe, AI-wise.  I lived/taught in Western Europe for a few years, recently.

Educators at all levels are basically in the position of the Coyote who is running on air, not realizing the cliff fell away some time ago.  Our current system doesn't work, or there is no way to compel students to abide by the rules of that system, and we have no idea what alternative situation should replace it.  In the meantime, an entire generation of kids are going to emerge from formal education with limited ability to read and analyze, limited accumulation of knowledge that forms the building blocks of higher level thinking.

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