We shouldn't fear ChatGPT in education -- we need to work with it

While ChatGPT's primary purpose is to assist users in generating human-like text, it has also made significant contributions to the field of philosophy. This, in turn, has had a significant impact on educational assessment, enabling educators to evaluate students' critical thinking skills in new and exciting ways. The doomsayers, by contrast, are sceptical. Here at UCC, for example, I've heard more than a few colleagues echoing Socrates, who, in Plato's dialogue Phaedrus (370 BC), expresses similar worries about the invention of … wait for it … writing. "This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it ... you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with since they are not wise, but only appear wise."