Lecture
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Francesco Walker
- Date
- Monday 16 June 2025
- Time
- Location
- Online only
To trust or not to trust ChatGPT? Exploring AI’s role in education
Abstract:
ChatGPT has rapidly emerged as a groundbreaking AI chatbot, revolutionizing how we interact with artificial intelligence. Capable of generating coherent, well-written responses across an extensive range of topics and languages, ChatGPT has become an invaluable tool in academic settings. Students and educators alike are using it to explain and summarize complex concepts, explore unfamiliar facts and methodologies, debug code, write essays, and more.
However, alongside its widespread adoption, ChatGPT has faced criticism for limitations in reasoning, a perceived lack of originality, and generating inaccurate information. While much attention has been given to the dangers of overtrusting the technology, less consideration has been given to the risks of undertrust—the reluctance to use ChatGPT even when it could provide meaningful assistance.
How do students actually use ChatGPT? How does trust, or a lack of it, shape their interactions? And what does this mean for the future of education? This talk explores these critical questions, shedding light on the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into learning.
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