How Is ChatGPT Impacting Education?

ChatGPT, the AI chatbot recently launched by OpenAI, has raised concerns among schools and other organizations about the future of education.

For Context: School districts across the country have banned ChatGPT from school networks and devices over concerns of potential cheating. Universities have already seen the chatbot used by students; The New York Times (Lean Left bias) reported on a professor who restricted how students wrote essays after one student used AI to write “the best paper in the class.” Even researchers have been impacted — in early January, the International Conference on Machine Learning banned scientific papers that “include text generated from a large-scale language model such as ChatGPT.”

What’s Next: Microsoft, which has already invested $1 billion in OpenAI, reportedly plans to invest another $10 billion. The tech giant also plans to include ChatGPT in its Azure OpenAI service and integrate it into its Bing search engine. 

How the Media Covered It: Coverage of ChatGPT’s consequences for education was widespread, with in-depth analyses more commonly found in left and center-rated tech-focused outlets. Some right-rated outlets discussed purported political bias in the AI’s responses, and one Vice (Left bias) article accused conservatives of “panicking” about AI going “woke.”