The Scared Witless Educator’s Guide to Surviving ChatGPT GPT-5

If you’re panicking over how to survive in world where every student has access to one of the most powerful AI’s ever made, I have a plan …

With the launch of ChatGPT GPT-5 last week, OpenAI put a wrench in the plans of every university lecturer, instructor and professor who is in AI denial, thinks that we’re still in 2022, or hasn’t quite got round to working out how to teach in a world where every AI-enabled students has the potential to be several steps ahead of them.1

As a result I’m anticipating a growing wave of panic as the new academic year starts, as instructors realize that they have no idea of how to survive the coming storm.

But I have a plan.

And it’s one that involves using GPT-5 to help you survive GPT-5 …

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Andrew Maynard

Director, ASU Future of being Human initiative