Beyond Prohibition: Understanding and Reducing AI Reliance in University Learning
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Artificial Intelligence; education; students benefit.Abstract
The strong abilities of artificial intelligence have encouraged people to apply it in different areas, especially in education. However, the widespread use of AI makes people start to question whether it can destroy academic integrity, and they want to limit its use on campus. This essay demonstrates the reasons behind this widespread phenomenon and how people can reduce the increasing popularity in the use of AI in universities by analyzing the data from AI Assistant Usage in Student Life by Ayesha Saleem through classification and comparison in sections like outcome distribution, AI assistance level, and whether used again. It turns out that students mainly use AI as a tool to complete assignments, revise essays, and search for information, and these are mainly caused by the imbalance between students’ abilities and assignment difficulty, lack of essay suggestions, and incomplete required information. Hence, universities can better reduce the use rate of AI by altering the assignment level, arranging more sessions for essay revision, and providing more necessary information for study.
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