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Other educators suggest that ChatGPT might not be breaking education at all, but rather highlighting how the system is already broken. Alex Taylor, who teaches human-computer interaction at City, University of London, says the bot has prompted discussions with colleagues about the future of testing and assessment. In his view, rote questions that can be answered by a chatbot don’t prompt the kind of learning that makes his students better thinkers. “Sometimes we’ve got it back to front,” he says. “We’re just like, ‘How can we test the hell out of people to meet some level of performance or some metric?’ Whereas, actually, education should be about a much more expansive idea.”
–Wired