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Students must learn to be more than mindless ‘machine-minders’
Generative AI is a tempting shortcut that can prevent those at university from gaining foundational skills.
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Artificial intelligence offers an alluring shortcut to students who are pressed for time and anxious to get good marks.
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Sarah O'Connor
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University students have taken to artificial intelligence in the same way that an anxious new driver with a crumpled road map might take to satnav – that is to say, hungrily, and understandably.
A survey of undergraduates in Britain by the Higher Education Policy Institute think-tank shows 92 per cent of them are using generative AI in some form in 2025, compared with 66 per cent in 2024, while 88 per cent have used it in assessments, up from 53 per cent last year.
