This is a punitive approach. I hope the conversation at your meeting focuses, instead, on dispelling the use of AI as “cheating.” As I posted above, I don’t think that’s the way to go as that horse has already left the barn. Students and workers can and will use Chat and other forms of AI in satisfying their work assignments and should not be discouraged from doing so. Rather, I think the onus is on academia to figure out how to integrate AI into the education process such that no policing is necessary and students still learn what they need to learn. Rather than “taking the calculator away” or limiting its use to addition only, we need to embrace what this technology does and use it to make education better, even if it means we need to change the entire teaching paradigm.
I’m an English major, so I understand that essays and other writing assignments are fundamental to the discipline, but perhaps the day of these types of assignments is over. Perhaps that’s the “old” way to go about it now. I don’t have the answer for what this new way should look like, but I think we need to start taking the approach that AI is here to stay and students should use it to its fullest, not be penalized as “cheaters.” Teaching needs to adapt to the tool such that no time or resources are wasted on detecting its use, no playing robo-cop. Perhaps what needs to change is our expectation of what students should learn and how they learn it.
I would like to see more of an adaptive approach than a policing or limiting approach.