In the 21st century, many students have reaped the benefits of the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence in computers. The past decade has shown the growth of AI assistants such as Grammarly and Photomath. In 2022, a new AI tool called ChatGPT started gaining popularity, which has become both a tool and disruptor of education.
Intelligent.com did a survey in 2024 that showed 37% of college students are consistently using ChatGPT.
Liberal Arts Professor Coye Lloyd was interviewed about her experiences with AI as a teacher.
Professor Lloyd had mixed feelings about AI, however, she has used it to plan classes in the past. The emergence of ChatGPT has specifically made teacher planning easier.
Teachers have also become experienced with noticing certain patterns in their students' writing to see whether they are using AI or not.
“Students are using AI more and more, which is causing some teachers now to have laser eyes for it,” Lloyd said.
Manisha Jukareddy, a master's student at IU Indy, also has mixed emotions about how AI has affected education.
“Sometimes students use AI as a part of their writing style. It is interesting to see the same structuring and phrasing across different papers,” says Jukareddy.
On the negative side, according to Jukareddy some students are frequently using ChatGPT as part of their writing process which leads to repetition.
“This is a problem because one thing about writing that is important is the metacognitive awareness that happens when you write. This is like muscle memory. When you use AI, that muscle memory starts to disappear,” Jukareddy said.
Professors such as Lloyd have noticed that in online classes, many students use some form of AI assistance since it is easier not to get caught.
On the other hand, Jukareddy says that AI has been helpful to her in creating social media descriptions and job posts for her internship.
“I use it for a cybersecurity internship to create social media descriptions and job posts,” Jukareddy stated.
Manisha Jukareddy is also a senior editor on IUI’s school paper, genesis, and has noticed that AI has become a blurry line when it comes to submissions. On one hand, AI can be useful to help brainstorm ideas for a story, poem or essay. However, on the other hand it is becoming more common that the editors have to look further into certain submissions specifically to do with artwork to make sure it wasn’t entirely created by AI.
“AI does not think, ChatGPT does not think. What is human to me is a thinking brain,” Lloyd said. “You spend all of this money to come to school, some people work a full-time job. They come to school only to ask this machine questions that you're supposed to think through, you're losing that ability.”
Ian Janke is an undergraduate student majoring in history and minoring in English. He enjoys running, reading historical fiction and is also an editor for IUI’s literary magazine, Genesis.
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