An anonymous high school teacher recently wrote to The New York Times ethicist column, asking if a teacher could ethically use AI to grade student work while actively prohibiting students' use of AI to submit their own work. To this teacher, doing so felt hypocritical.
The column’s author, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a philosophy professor at NYU, replied to the teacher that this mixed policy toward AI was ethical because the students need to practice writing while the teacher already knew how to grade. The real question, Appiah wrote, was whether AI grading tools could fairly grade students in a manner that helped them improve for the next assignment, like a skilled teacher.
