Can college professors use ChatGPT for good?

Artificial intelligence has been around for decades. In 1951, computer science pioneer Christopher Strachey wrote the first successful AI program. Since then, it has been woven into our everyday lives — from bank fraud detection to flu season prediction to facial identification on our smartphones.

Yet as large language model-based tools like ChatGPT have become accessible to the public, AI has garnered more and more negative attention, especially because of the prospect that students may use it to complete assignments.

Cynthia Furse, an electrical and…