{"id":22399,"date":"2023-01-06T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22399"},"modified":"2023-01-06T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:38:31","slug":"new-york-city-public-schools-ban-access-to-ai-tool-that-could-help-students-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/new-york-city-public-schools-ban-access-to-ai-tool-that-could-help-students-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City public schools ban access to AI tool that could help students cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22400\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22400 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/01\/darren-hick-01-350-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"white man with beard wearing blue sport coat, Darren Hick\" width=\"250\" height=\"316\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/316;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darren Hick, Department of Philosophy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>News that New York City Public Schools will ban AI tool ChatGPT on concerns over widespread cheating has unleashed another wave of coverage about the technology. Furman University&#8217;s Darren Hick, a philosophy professor, was among the first to sound the alarm about the chatbot capable of churning out seemingly credible essays and other materials in mere seconds. Hick&#8217;s comments appear on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/05\/tech\/chatgpt-nyc-school-ban\/index.html\">CNN Business<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somagnews.com\/chatgpt-banned-from-use-in-new-york-public-schools\/\">Somag News<\/a>, and NBC&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/teens\/chatgpt-ai-teachers-students-cheat-essays-rcna63352?search=chatgpt\"> Today.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports that New York City public schools will ban ChatGPT spur a new wave of media coverage for the AI technology and a fresh cycle of media coverage for Furman&#8217;s Darren Hick, among the first to sound the alarm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1776,6,1778,1777],"tags":[1780,1754,1779,1764,1757],"class_list":["post-22399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn-business","category-in-the-news","category-nbcs-today-com","category-somag-news","tag-academic-cheating","tag-ai","tag-chatbot","tag-chatgpt","tag-plagiarism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}