Since the emergence of ChatGPT – and its successor GPT-4 – higher education has gone into overdrive in analysing the potential opportunities and risks of such powerful new technologies.
While much of the global conversation has thus far has focused on the future impact of AI, many universities are already grappling with these issues in the here and now.
Here, THE outlines five ways AI has already had a transformative effect on the sector – from chatbots providing student support to AI-generated reading lists.
The chief executive of education technology company Chegg, Dan Rosensweig, has blamed ChatGPT for a decline in the number of new sign-ups for its textbook and coursework help services, saying that – as midterms and finals approached – many would-be customers had instead turned to AI for help.ref
