Educator's Guide for OpenAI's ChatGPT

When using it, it's very important that you must not put any personally identifiable information about any students into the chat.  According to  OpenAI's FAQ about ChatGPT, "we review conversations to improve our systems and to ensure the content complies with our policies and safety requirements. " Additionally, "we are not able to delete specific prompts from your history. Please don't share any sensitive information in your conversations."

This article from Vox summarizes how ChatGPT works, what it does well, some of the problems it poses, and where it still has room to get better: AI is finally good at stuff, and that's a problem,

As you can imagine, this is going to change the nature of take-home essays as students can either turn in exactly what ChatGPT wrote for them or they can use its response as a starting point and then tweak it to better match their assignment. There are going to be many beneficial uses of this technology as well, so I want to highlight some of those opportunities it provides as well as preparing teachers for the challenges it presents.