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The number of undergraduate undergraduate students in the UK who use artificial intelligence to help them finish the study has increased in the last 12 months, asking questions about the universities assess their work.
More than nine out of 10 students now use AI in some form, compared to two -thirds a year ago, according to a Survey published Think-Tank Institute for Higher Education Policy on Wednesday.
Experts warned that the pure download speed Ai Among undergraduate students require universities to quickly develop politics to give students clarity of acceptable technology use.
Josh Freeman, a policy manager at HEPI, said it was “almost unclear” to see such fast changes in the behavior of the student and that it would force the radical change in access in the way universities were evaluated by students.
“There are emergency lessons for institutions here. Each assessment must be examined in case it is easy to complete with AI. This will require bold initiatives for staff staff in the power and potential of the generative AI,” he added.
The findings come one month after the science secretary Peter Kyle caused controversy speaking that it was acceptable for school children to use AI to complete homework “with supervision and [when] used in the right way ”.
The findings of the generative AI tools were based on a representative pattern surveys of 1,041 full -time students in the UK.
Revealed that 88 percent of students said they used a generative AI, such as Chatgpt for estimates, compared to 53 percent 2024with students studying scientific subjects more likely to use technology than their peers who study social sciences and humanistic sciences.
Only 29 percent of humanities students believed that AI would generate content “achieve a good grade in my subject”, compared to 45 percent of students who studied science, engineering or medical degree.
The largest two reasons why students applied AI were “time savings” and “improvement of the quality of my work”, with half that citing this as the reason they most likely used a tools.
The proportion of students who considered the acceptable inclusion of AI text in the tasks after editing increased from 17 to 25 percent in the last year, but only 6 percent thought it was using AI-raised content without editing was acceptable.
The report also identified that the “persistent digital division” in AI competencies is called, and men are more likely to be common users, along with the rich background students. Almost half of the students said they had already used AI at school.
Although the proportion of students who say that staff at universities are “well equipped” to support their use of AI -A has doubled during the year, from 18 to 42 percent, many students still said that they lacked clarity about the rules for the use of AI.
“Everything is still very unclear and in the air if/when it can be used and why,” one student said. “Dance around the theme. Not forbidden, but not advised, if you use it, academic misconduct, but the lecturers tell us they use it. Very mixed messages, “another added.
Janice Kay, Director of Viching Futures, Higher Education Counseling, who wrote a foreword in the HEPI report, said that, although this is a “positive sign in general” to learn to use AI, this also indicated incoming challenges .
“There is little evidence here that Ai tools are misused for cheating and playing the system. [But] There are plenty of signs that will represent serious challenges for students, teachers and institutions, and they will have to get rid of how higher education is transformed, “she added.
