New AI robot writes high-quality essays - stressing teachers in Umeå: "Who wrote what I'm assessing?"

The AI ​​robot Chat GPT was launched to a larger audience at the end of last year and shortly the tech giant Google will release a similar feature.

The AI ​​robot can be used to answer questions and write assignments - something that makes it difficult for teachers to see whether it is a human or a machine who wrote the text.

Creates additional work

Desirée Granström Lind is a special education teacher and union activist at Ersängsskolan in Umeå.

She believes that the new technology creates stress and extra work for the teachers.

They must change the planning and tasks to be used in assessing the students.

- The students are faster than we are when it comes to technology.

There needs to be a discussion about school and assessment, is it only the end result that should be assessed or the process?

Can or must we rethink?

That is what currently creates stress, she says.