Will you avoid teaching careers now that AI makes cheating much easier?

Would you avoid teaching math if your students could use a calculator instead of a slide rule?

(Are these equivalent arguments? To what degree is this new tech so much different? Is it still just a tool?)

Reasons I will not return to teaching, unless it's at a teacher-powered public school with fewer than 100 students who are struggling in part because they don't have enough support:

-low pay

-unreasonably large workload

-expectation of homework

-disrespect for teacher autonomy (if you don't let teachers have more creative control, might as well farm out the job to artificial intelligence. Admins: hire teachers who are themselves life-long learners and value figuring things out right along with their students, to name a couple characteristics I value)

In the right setting, I love the challenge of helping my students grow into adults (largely, people who can identify their emotions and then decide what to do, and who can find and take steps to fulfill a sense of purpose), regardless of what technology is available.

There's only so many subjects requiring papers where you'd need an AI-written paper. And I don't know how an AI would help with an in-person test.

But there's something more important. I've heard the best teachers can convey their own love for a topic -- and kindle the same enthusiasm in their students. So with a really good teacher, the students just get caught up in the lectures, learn a bunch, and then have no need to cheat.

Sal Khan offers a more optimistic use of AI for education

https://blog.khanacademy.org/sal-khans-2023-ted-talk-ai-in-t...