Most thinking about generative AI in higher education has been focused, perhaps inevitably, on plagiarism.
It’s been a pattern throughout the information revolution – you may be old enough to remember the similar conversations when mass access to the nascent world wide web became possible in the late 1990s.
A new way of accessing and using information emerges, therefore there is a concern that students may use it to cheat on assignments. Though it may be true for some, it is hardly a fault in the technology itself.
Focusing just on the dangers of new technology is, in itself, dangerous. Just as current technology has brought new ways of working that have changed the very nature of employment, it is fair to assume that generative AI will have an impact on the way we work in the future.
