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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

AI in Education EditorialUpdated June 2, 20261 min readRead source
‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
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Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Illustration: Jon Han/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Illustration: Jon Han/The Guardian This article is more than 1 month old ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI This article is more than 1 month old As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large Lea

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