Gonna disagree here and say that a one year ban while schools figure things out is reasonable, especially for younger students.
Something I saw in college, granted I didnโt go to a top school, was the gptfication of students. People started using chatgpt for everything and stopped thinking through problems themselves.
Anecdotal, but it comes from TAing roughly 200 students and speaking with professors I worked and studied under. It was amazing to see students get perfect scores on lab reports and then repeatedly fail exams.
Why is this different from cheating?
cheating usually required some level of effort, planning, or understanding, sometimes more effort than doing the damn assignment.
now itโs as simple as uploading a file or copy paste
Why is that bad? Younger brains are highly neuroplastic, and learning depends on repeatedly exercising skills like reasoning, writing, problem-solving, critical thinking etc. If AI consistently replaces that effort at an early age, students risk becoming intellectually dependent on chatgpt before developing those skills.
I agree that students eventually need to be taught how to use AI.
but restricting access, like how schools restrict certain websites or Google searches on school computers, seems like a reasonable framework to me, at least until someone creates a good platform that beneficially integrates AI into learning