Former English teacher, Peter Laffin, predicts OpenAI's new artificial intelligence chatbot will lead to a learning crisis and force teachers to rethink education. The emergence of artificial intelligence chatbots that can complete students' assignments will lead to a crisis in learning, forcing educators to rethink schooling entirely, a former teacher said. "The introduction of new artificial intelligence technologies into schools that enables students to auto-generate essays has the capacity to blow up our entire writing education curriculum," Peter Laffin, founder of Crush the College Essay and writing coach, told Fox News. "It may make us have to rethink it from the ground up, and that might ultimately be a good thing." Last week, tech company OpenAI unveiled an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which has stunned users with its advanced functions.

Matthew Ramirez was teaching writing classes to students at the University of California at Berkeley when he started to get frustrated. He was spending the majority of his time giving repetitive feedback to students, and there wasn't enough time to provide truly constructive, in-depth feedback to each individual before the next essay was due. "Given the time constraints of a semester and the number of students in a class, it wasn't humanly possible to respond to everything I wanted to," Ramirez said in an interview. "Nor was it possible to work through multiple drafts with individual students." Ramirez took it upon himself to build a solution.