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Opportunities and Threats AI:
A s artificial testing students in higher education, there’s a call for universities to shift from a content-based to a competency-based curriculum in order to tackle instances of plagiarism and other challenges being thrown up. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, a software developed by Silicon Valley start-up OpenAI, machine- generated intelligence has demonstrated the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in education through innovative teaching and learning practices. However, AI’s ability to produce essays, complete assignments, and generate creative works has incited an ethics debate intelligence (AI) threatens to upend traditional methods of
in the academic world, and its use has been banned in some academic institutions. Given the magnitude of the potential impact of this technological development, The UWI signalled its willingness to tackle the issue and any impending outcomes when it hosted a Vice-Chancellor’s forum last May entitled Artificial Intelligence (AI) – A Blessing or Curse for Higher Education? Moderator of the forum, Professor Justin Robinson, former Chair of the Board for Undergraduate Studies who became Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The UWI, Five Islands Campus last August, noted that higher education was still trying to grasp the scope of AI and its likely impact on teaching and research, and how education institutions should respond.
Professor Justin Robinson Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal The UWI, Five Islands Campus
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