AI can inhibit learning and can be viewed as an easy way out in gaining new information. An article by Beth McMurtrie of The Chronicle of Higher Education states a lot of negatives toward using AI in learning.
“AI use (I mean generative AI) is not an ‘academic’ skill, in my opinion. Just like watching TV is not a skill. Just like using the internet is not a skill. In my view, the idea that we need college professors ‘teaching’ students how to use generative AI is preposterous and a waste of time and already pinched resources,” wrote Erik McCarthy, an English professor at Gordon State College, in Georgia.
“If students develop critical literacy, self-expression, and humanist values, they will not need to be ‘taught’ how to use generative AI ‘properly.’”
Various professors in the college community do not view AI as helpful to their students. An associate professor at Berea College in Kentucky voiced her opinion. “I understand that this technology will only grow — that AI and especially computer imaging and machine learning combined with robotics will be transformational in my field — but I really care about the experience of thinking deeply about things, and want my students to have the experience of wrestling with ideas, and I don’t know a way of using AI that doesn’t detract from that experience.”
Students are taught the basics of AI at most colleges but professors advise highly against using it. It can produce inaccuracies or misinformation that you may not get from a traditional college lecture course.
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