ChatGPT, a smart AI chatbot（聊天机器人） tool, has swept the education world in the past months. According to a US survey of more than 1,000 students, over 89 percent of them have used ChatGPT to help with a their homework.
Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a powerful tool. You can ask it to write stories and e-mails, create recipes（食谱）, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions.
Some schools in the US, Australia and France have banned（禁止） the use of ChatGPT. In the US, for example, New York City public schools banned students and teachers from using ChatGPT on the district's networks and devices（设备）.
The move comes out of worries that the tool could make it easier for students to cheat on homework. Some also worry that ChatGPT could be used to spread inaccurate（不准确的） information.
"It does not build critical-thinking（批判性思维） and problem-solving skills, which are necessary for academic（学术的） and lifelong success," said Jenna Lyle, the deputy press secretary of the New York City Department of Education.
Apart from bans, teachers are making changes to their classes to block the use of ChatGPT. Some college teachers in the US try to include more speaking exams and handwritten papers instead of typed ones.
However, not all educators say "no" to ChatGPT. Some Canadian universities are drafting（起草） policies on its use, for both students and teachers. They have no plans to completely ban the tool so far.
Bhaskar Vira, pro-vice-chancellor（副校长） for education at the University of Cambridge in the UK, said that bans on AI software like ChatGPT are not sensible（明智的）. "We have to know that [AI] is a tool people will use," he told Varsity, the school newspaper of the university. What we need to do is "adapt our learning, teaching and examinations". That way, we can "have integrity（诚信） while recognizing the use of the tool".
