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COMMENTARY: Teachers in Atlantic Canada sound alarm over student AI use

The kids are back in school. And according to a new survey, teachers in Atlantic Canada suspect large shares of their students use AI to complete their homework — often inappropriately — and report diminished in-class abilities and critical thinking skills. AI chatbots such as ChatGPT might present a world of information at our fingertips, but many teachers say their students use AI to do their thinking for them.

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Specifically, 42.6 per cent of teachers in Atlantic Canada (grades 6-12) said more than half of their students “use AI in their homework and other take-home assignments.” On the surface, that might not be an issue, but here’s the problem — 59.3 per cent of teachers said their students “use AI inappropriately to actually do the assignments for them and therefore do not complete the expected and required work themselves.”

If students use AI to do their homework for........

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