Vanderbilt Peabody Office's Purportedly ChatGPT-Drafted Message About Michigan State Shooting Reportedly Drew Student Backlash
Description
On February 16, 2023, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion reportedly sent students a message about the Michigan State University shooting that disclosed it had been drafted or paraphrased using ChatGPT. Students reportedly criticized the message as impersonal and disrespectful in a moment of grief. Peabody later apologized for "poor judgment," and two EDI deans temporarily stepped back during a review.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- vanderbilt-university
- vanderbilt-university-peabody-college-office-of-equity-diversity-and-inclusion
Alleged Developers
- openai
Harmed Parties
- vanderbilt-university-students
- vanderbilt-university
- students
- universities
- university-students
- educators
- professors
- educational-communities
Classification
Risk Domain
Human-Computer InteractionRisk Subdomain
5.1. Overreliance and unsafe use
MIT Risk Profile
Source
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