When I teach about #AI whether it be #philosophy in general, #ethics or epistemology of, I always start my courses with an image like this one. 🧵 I tell my students about how the @USPS build one of the first databases and methods to recognize handwritten numbers which then led to important developments in automated image recognition:

Recently @JohnSymons expressed concern about #AI-written student papers becoming a problem for higher ed. Services like Jasper AI are certainly more accessible and hence will become more widespread than older essay services. I hinted I had a likely solution. Here it is: 🧵 Caveats: this is a condensed version of actual prompts; prompts include templates and examples; designed to help struggling writers overcome anxiety of writing; yes, it is formulaic but designed to make students think first and foremost. Students have NO access to future prompts.