To AI or not to AI? That is the question that colleges, professors, and even students are still asking themselves.

When generative AI became widely accessible, think chat GPT in 2022, schools rushed to block the use of these tools.

And while the discourse has changed, some schools are embracing the use of AI.

There are other people like Sally Simpson who say that these tools are a detriment to learning.

Simpson is working on a PhD in German literature at Georgetown University and does not use generative AI.

I think that in a lot of ways, it cheapens people's education.

I think it's an important skill to be able to read an article and read a text and not only

be able to summarize it, but think about it critically.

Amy Lawyer is the Department chair of Equine administration at the

University of Louisville's business school. Students are to a point where they're going to use any

resources available to them. To stop her students from overusing AI, lawyer told NPR that she

issues more assignments that must be handwritten or completed in class.

Mark Watkins studies the impact of AI on education at the University of Mississippi,

and he worries about how these tools might impact the role of education.

The sort of nightmare scenario that we might be running into is students using AI to write papers and teachers using AI to grade the same papers.

If that's the case, then what's the purpose of education?

Consider this.

Students are using AI tools more than ever.

Coming up, we speak with one college professor

who says students are sacrificing their own agency

to artificial intelligence.

Thank you. their own agency to artificial intelligence. From NPR, I'm Elsa Chang.

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