Ian McMaster

The first thing I saw when I opened a Microsoft Word document to write this article was the following message: ‘Describe what you’d like to draft with Copilot’. Like most people, on seeing such a message, I barely batted an eyelid. Copilot is Microsoft’s AI chatbot tool, and such tools have become both ubiquitous and taken for granted since the launch of Open AI’s ChatGPT in November 2022. Debates rage about the value and impact of AI within organisations and sectors, including the ELT industry. Will AI destroy jobs, including those of teachers and trainers? Or will it, like many new...