Topic: ChatGPT: What Now? What Next?

Overview

Matt Parfitt is an Associate Professor in the Rhetoric Division at the BU College of General Studies.

ChatGPT and other Natural Language Generators have arrived and they’re not going anywhere. We need to think differently about how we teach writing and about the role that writing plays in our courses. And we need to look ahead, not only to the future of AI but to the future workplaces of our students. The technology is moving quickly, so our task is formidable — but also inescapable. And the news is certainly not all bad. Associate Professor Parfitt's purpose is not to sound the alarm but to consider how the technology can help our students learn and help us teach.