Opinion: Did your kid write that essay? Or did ChatGPT?

Today’s digital age takes the potential for cheating to new levels, and ChatGPT makes it far too easy for struggling students to lean on AI-generated writing in place of what comes out of their own heads. — AP

Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is wending its way into virtually every corner of our lives. Our Google searches, email drafts and Facebook newsfeeds rely on AI. While AI-assisted Roombas clean our carpets, Amazon’s Alexa tells us it’s going to snow, or reminds us that, yes, Cate Blanchett has indeed already won two acting Oscars – for Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.

Now AI, in the form of a controversial app called ChatGPT, has made its debut in classrooms, and school districts across the country are scrambling to bone up on the technology and decide whether it should be seen as friend or foe.