A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating (guest post)

“The aim is not to keep everything exactly as it was before gen AI took off. That would be both impossible and undesirable. The aim is to preserve the parts of philosophical education that are still worth preserving while changing the surrounding infrastructure enough to make that possible.” That’s David Bourget, a philosophy professor at Western University and executive director of the PhilPapers Foundation, who has created a new tool to help professors—not just philosophy professors, but anyone who teaches by having students write—struggling with the prospect of their students using ChatGPT, Grammarly, and other AI tools to cheat on their assignments. The tool, currently in beta testing, is called MATCHA (Modern Authoring Tool for Certified Human Authorship). You can try it out here. But before you do, you should read Professor Bourget’s post about it, below, where he describes its purpose, features, and limitations. MATCHA: A New Tool for Curbing AI Cheating by David Bourget Over…