Artificial Intelligence & Higher Ed: What Lies Ahead? - Higher Education Digest

Opportunities notwithstanding, there are many outstanding questions and potential downsides to the use of AI in teaching and learning that we must also attend to. These are related to the call for the pause on AI training by the likes of Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak. If a tool like ChatGPT formulates a poem, for example, who owns it--the machine or the human who published it? Further, because most of these AI tools are trained only on information openly available on the internet, the chance of spreading inaccurate information, even disinformation, is very high. Rampant bias in generated responses has been reported because these systems cannot access information located behind a login or paywall, such as peer-reviewed materials and textbooks written by vetted and more objective experts.