The strong use of AI in everyday life, as well as student work and grading, presents a common dilemma between using technology to make things easier and doing what’s right and fair. Yes, some people argue that it makes it relatively easier for teachers to grade, check for plagiarism, instant feedback, spotting repetition patterns, and saving far amounts of time. Other people strongly argue that they think it takes away the simple and necessary human element required to recognize creativity, hard work, and growth in students. I find that although AI will save a lot of time for teachers and students, it should not continue to replace teachers grading their own students’ work. Teachers can not only understand the raw emotion from their students’ writing, but also their growth in writing, as well as their personal voice that AI can not just simply interpret or pick up on. I firmly believe that AI does positively affect students and teachers, but I also firmly believe that teachers should not lose their judgement on their own teaching and assessment skills. I do not believe that AI is aware enough and educated upon each student’s grading, furthermore losing the ability to properly assess a student. I have found that AI scanners seem to pick up AI generated text based on repetitive sentence structure and word choice, which is not always reliable, nor consistent. “It will act trustworthy, but it will not be trustworthy. We won’t know how they are trained. We won’t know their secret instructions. We won’t know their biases, either accidental or deliberate. We do know that they are built at enormous expense, mostly in secret, by profit-maximizing corporations for their own benefit” (Schneier). There is clear evidence that AI is not always trustable and consistent with its grading and it is not the most ethical and profound way to grade students’ work, nor should it be the only tool teachers use.
