WSJ via MSN: “…Around 400 million people use ChatGPT every week, OpenAI said. Students are the most common users, according to the company, which offers a free version and advanced services costing as much as $200 a month. OpenAI hopes students will get into a lifelong habit of consulting ChatGPT whenever they have a question, a role played by Google for almost three decades. Of students who reported using AI, nearly 40% of those in middle and high schools said they employed it without teachers’ permission to complete assignments, according to a survey last year by Impact Research. Among college students who use AI, the figure was nearly half. An internal analysis published by OpenAI said ChatGPT was frequently used by college students to help write papers. Students, operating on screens outside adult supervision, are left to decide whether to use or resist AI tools that can clandestinely deliver top grades. Age restrictions set by AI companies are easily circumvented. Like the unknowns accompanying the introduction of social media a generation ago, there has been limited research on AI’s academic merits and pitfalls for students, including the propensity for cheating. “This is a gigantic public experiment that no one has asked for,” said Marc Watkins, assistant director of academic innovation at the University of Mississippi…”