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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool

ChatGPT chatbot seen on smartphone placed on laptop.
ChatGPT has already triggered concerns about the potential for hard-to-detect plagiarism and questions about the validity of the essay as a future form of assessment. Photograph: Ascannio/Alamy

Lecturers at UK universities have been urged to review the way in which their courses are assessed amid concerns that students are already using a potent new AI tool capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input.

ChatGPT, the latest chatbot from OpenAI, founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, has only been publicly available for a matter of weeks, but has already triggered concerns about the potential for hard-to-detect plagiarism and questions about the validity of the essay as a future form of assessment.

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