Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. College professors across the country are working frantically to "ChatGPT-proof" their assignments as some educators report seeing dozens of students cheating with the tool. Some professors are planning to return to paper exams after years of conducting them digitally. Others are more drastic and plan to require students to show the draft history on their essay assignments.

It's no longer news that one of the first professional sectors threatened by the rapid adoption of ChatGPT and generative AI is education – universities and colleges around the country convened emergency meetings to discuss what to do about the risk of students using AI to cheat on their work. Recent research from professors at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, New York University and Princeton suggests that educators should be just as worried about their own jobs. In an analysis of professions "most exposed" to the latest advances in large language models like ChatGPT, eight of the top 10 are teaching positions. "When we ran our analysis, I was surprised to find that educational occupations come out close to the top in many cases," said Robert Seamans, co-author of the new research study and professor at NYU.

Education technology company Udemy has been selling language learning modules made with ChatGPT to help language teachers design their courses. Duolingo, the popular online language learning company, is relying on AI technology to power its Duolingo English Test (DET), an English proficiency exam available online, on demand. The test utilizes ChatGPT to generate text passages for reading comprehension and AI for supporting human proctors in spotting suspicious test-taking behavior. It is also working with teachers to generate lesson content and speed up the process and scale of adding advanced materials to the platform. "Since not everyone in the world has equal access to great teachers and favorable learning conditions, AI gives us the best chance to scale quality education to everyone who needs it," said Klinton Bicknell, Duolingo's head of AI.

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To a class of over 300 students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, there didn't seem to be anything unusual about the new teaching assistant, Jill Watson. They never met Ms. Watson, but she always responded to emails quickly and casually. Like any good TA, Ms. Watson's involvement was low-key but helpful. "She was the person –well, the teaching assistant– who would remind us of due dates and post questions in the middle of the week to spark conversations," student Jennifer Gavin told the Journal. Some students envisioned their TA as a young PhD hopeful.