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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Alice Speri

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

Group of figures inside a glowing digital space, facing a large window that shows a landscape with trees and sky

Lea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting with ways to get her students to learn offline. She has them memorize poems, perform at recitation events, look at art in the real world.

It’s an effort to reconnect them to the bodily experience of learning, she said, and to keep them from turning to artificial intelligence to do the work for them. “There’s no AI-proof anything,” Pao said. “Rather than policing it, I hope that their overall experiences in this class will show them that there’s a way out.”

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