Since its release in November, ChatGPT seems to have taken the world by storm. For readers who are not familiar with it, ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence language model, developed by OpenAI Inc., that uses “deep learning” to perform various tasks when prompted to such as writing essays, answering research questions, and even generating computer code. Think of it as a virtual writing assistant that can understand and respond to you in natural language. With its impressive abilities, it is no surprise that ChatGPT has quickly become a popular tool for content creation.

Although this tool may be useful in the world of business, it is much more difficult to manage in the field of education where students can potentially generate work, such as essays, using the popular chatbot and then pass it off as their own.

So, what should be done? Should schools consider whether they need to overhaul homework by asking students to write essays during lessons and only do research at home to prevent them from using the chatbot to cheat? Or should they allow students to use the chatbot on condition that they are clear to quote its responses like any other source? 

While the debate unfolds, and the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence continues to profoundly challenge the way we educate our children, it is essential that we focus on teaching them how to master skills in our ever-changing world. For despite its advanced capabilities, ChatGPT is not without limitations. And while it can generate human-like responses and has access to a large amount of information, it does not possess human-level common sense. This means that ChatGPT may sometimes provide nonsensical or inaccurate responses to certain questions or situations and can contain bias and prejudice content. Additionally, ChatGPT lacks emotional intelligence, which means that the responses it generates do not possess true emotional intelligence. ChatGPT also has difficulty understanding context, such as humor. Teaching our students how to deal with technology and artificial intelligence, how to think whether responses are good or have missed the context, have biased data, or lack creativity is how we teach them to be responsible digital citizens who are prepared for the future.