"This rampant, unauthorized AI use degrades the educational experience of individual students who overly rely on the technology and those who wish to avoid using it. When students ask ChatGPT to write papers, complete problem sets, or formulate discussion queries, they rob themselves of the opportunity to learn how to think, study, and answer complex questions. These students also undermine their non-AI-using peers."
"Widespread AI use also subverts the institutional goals of colleges and universities. Large language models routinely fabricate information, and even when they do create factually accurate work, they frequently depend on intellectual-property theft. So when an educational institution as a whole produces large amounts of AI-generated scholarship, it fails to create new ideas and add to the storehouse of human wisdom."
Since 2022 colleges and universities have tried to reconcile AI chatbots with liberal-arts education and largely failed. AI-enabled cheating has become widespread across institutional types. Unauthorized AI use erodes individual learning by substituting automated outputs for critical thinking, problem-solving, and study practice, and it harms students who choose not to use AI. Institutional goals suffer because large language models fabricate information and often rely on intellectual-property theft, reducing genuine scholarship and innovation. AI systems impose significant ecological costs and depend on exploitative labor, conflicting with commitments to environmental protection and economic justice.
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