If robots rise up against humanity, it might be because we're making them take a bunch of tests. ChatGPT, the much-hyped AI text generator from OpenAI, passed medical, business, and law exams this month and scored higher than many human students.

ChatGPT recently scored above a passing grade on…

• The three-part US Medical Licensing Exam
• A Wharton Business School exam—the final test of the MBA program's Operations Management course
• Four University of Minnesota Law School exams in Constitutional Law, Employee Benefits, Taxation, and Torts (not the dessert)

These tests contained a mix of short-answer, essay, and multiple choice questions—and ChatGPT received passing, but not gold-star, grades in all of them. Examiners noted that ChatGPT was much better at writing than math, which…same.

Big picture: SmarterChild 2.0's success has educators debating AI's role in the classroom and how to best assess student learning in the new ChatGPT era. While some want to keep AI tools out of class by, say, requiring students to write out work by hand, others argue we should embrace the new tech as a support tool, like a tutor or calculator.—JW