This may be the end of using writing as a benchmark for aptitude and intelligence, Daniel Herman writes. ⁠ ⁠ The work that ChatGPT—an artificial-intelligence program that generates sophisticated text in response to any prompt—can produce right now is better than the large majority of writing seen by your average teacher... See more

There are no reliable figures for how many American students use A.I., just stories about how everyone is doing it. A 2024 Pew Research Center survey of students between the ages of 13 and 17 suggests that a quarter of teens currently use ChatGPT for schoolwork, double the figure from 2023. Late last year, in a survey of college and university... See more