A professor asks "why wouldn't I use ChatGPT to write essays" and sets out six responses. This is followed by a longer listing of mitigations, and why they've failed, as well as alternative approaches, and why they've failed. "I've noticed in reaction to teachers' complaints about AI: a general exhortation to 'change our teaching strategies.' I wanted to convey that this is harder than it sounds. We've considered whatever measure you're about to suggest, and here's why it doesn't do what you think it does." For me, the reason why I write in person (including in this newsletter) rather than AI is simple: the AI doesn't know what I think about things. It doesn't know what values I have, and what I think is right and wrong, or even what I think needs to be explained and what can be taken for granted. I have my own experience; ChatGPT doesn't have access to that.
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