Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. With the advent of AI tools like chat

GTP, cheating in college has become more accessible, prevalent, and for some students,

less ethically troubling. However, cheating has always been an issue in education. How much of a

factor is AI playing here?

And isn't learning how to use AI in preparation for entering the workforce where that skill is essential, a good thing.

To answer these and other questions, I'm now joined by Beth McMurtry, a senior writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Thanks for joining me, Beth.

Glad to be here.

How are college students currently using AI tools in their academic work?

Well, the really interesting thing that I've found in my reporting is that students are starting

to use AI as an all-purpose tool.

And by that, I mean they're using it as a search engine. They're using

it to start papers and projects. They're summarizing the readings that they're being assigned.

They're using it to brainstorm. They're using it to quiz themselves in preparation for

tests, and they're using it to revise their own writing. I think that's a really fascinating transition

that we're seeing in this era of technology

where it's not just Google anymore.

We're really shifting everything over to AI.

In that same vein, are there instances

where students or even institutions struggle to define

the line between acceptable AI use and academic dishonesty? Yes, absolutely. This is a huge debate

in higher education right now because there are some obvious red lines, right? Like everybody

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