The story of the scorpion and the frog is a story of somewhat unclear origin wherein a scorpion asks a frog for help to cross a river, the frog reluctantly agrees, and then dies from the scorpion sting after crossing the river. Sometimes I feel like my embrace of ChatGPT may resemble this fable as I court my own destruction as a teacher and academic.

This was an exciting week in the world of AI Chatbots. Google launched their own product which didn't go well. Microsoft is poised to integrate AI into standard office products, and users figured out how to jailbreak ChatGPT to get around ethics protocols.

My semester of experimentation with ChatGPT rounded a corner this week with students turning in their first assignments. I am encouraging them to experiment with the program and be transparent about their experience. My goal is to learn how students want to use the program in a writing class to better inform future practices and educate myself…

This semester many of us in education are struggling to adapt to a world with ChatGPT and other AI programs (the cover image was created by DALL-E). My default with students is radical transparency so I decided to show them the program and try and work with it rather than against it this semester. This may be a complete failure, but there is upside…