We got AI in education all wrong: Here’s the fix

For decades, Korea’s top universities have relied on a familiar system for judging academic excellence: high-stakes exams, tightly supervised assignments, and essays meant to showcase a student’s individual mastery. Academic integrity, long protected by strict rules and intense competition, was assumed to be easily verifiable. Now, generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can produce research papers, essay answers, and even personalized reflections in seconds — often more polished than a student’s own writing. A first-year student can ask a chatbot to analyze a poem or summarize a week’s lecture and receive a convincing, submission-ready response almost instantly. This raises a fundamental challenge: Why struggle to reason through a concept when AI can deliver a passable answer without understanding? Recent reports show that even Korea’s top universities are struggling to adapt. Students at Seoul National University, Korea University and Yonsei University were found to have used AI tools like ChatGPT to cheat on exams, exposing the limiWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times