Plagiarism detectors will not work against artificial intelligence cheating and schools should embrace the technology instead, says the founder of a popular online tutoring site.
Sal Khan, an American who runs Khan Academy, a free online teaching resource, believes that AI could transform education and is urging schools to use it not fear it.
Schools and universities have been grappling with how to adapt to the advent of “generative AI” models such as ChatGPT that can write essays and assignments to a high level with simple text prompts. Chief among their concerns is cheating, and many have looked at plagiarism-detecting software, which has been used to combat essay-writing mills.
