Artificial Intelligence

Human- and machine-generated prose may one day be indistinguishable. But that does not quell academics’ search for an answer to the question “What makes prose human?”

To help put text generators in the proper perspective, we need to turn toward each other to determine guidelines for the use of such tools, Anna Mills writes.

To harness the potential and avert the risks of OpenAI’s new chat bot, academics should think a few years out, invite students into the conversation and—most of all—experiment, not panic.