AI is endemic to university campuses while teachers and students rely on artificial intelligence

On forums like MY my teachers miss, students complained about the excessive dependence of conferences on AI.

The average cost of annual tuition fees in a four-year institution in the United States is $ 17,709. If students study in a public public institution outside the state, this average cost reaches $ 28,445 per year, according to the Education data for research groups.

Some students argue that use by AI instructors decreases the value of their education, especially when they pay high tuition fees to learn human experts.

However, others say that it is unfair that students can be penalized for the use of AI while teachers are largely flying under the radar.

A student at Northeast University Even filed an official complaint and asked for a reimbursement of tuition fees after discovering that his teacher secretly used AI tools to generate notes.

University professors have said Fortune The use of AI for things like the preparation and classification of courses has become “omnipresent”.

However, they say that the problem does not reside in the use of AI, but rather the faculty tendency to hide why and how they use technology.

Automated classification

One of the uses of AI that has become the most controversial is to use the technology to note the students.

Rob Anthony, who is part of the World Faculty of Hult International Business School, said Fortune This classification of automation became “increasingly omnipresent” among the teachers.

“No one really likes to note. There is a lot. It takes a long time. You are not rewarded for that,” he said. “Students really care about the notes. Professors don't care about it much. ”

Which is disconnected, combined with relatively loose institutional monitoring of the classification, led the teachers Members to seek faster ways to process students' assessments.

“The teachers, with or without AI, often want to find a very quick way to get out of the notes,” he said. “And there is very little surveillance … of the way you note.”

However, if more and more teachers simply decide to let the tools to make a judgment on the work of their students, Anthony is concerned about a homogenized rating system where students are increasingly obtaining the same comments from teachers.

“I see a lot of automated ranking where each student essentially gets the same comments. It is not suitable, it's the same script,” he said.

A teaching assistant and a full -time student, who asked to remain anonymous, said Fortune They used ChatPPT to help note dozens of student papers.

The AT said that the pressure of full -time studies management, a job and a mountain of student tasks have forced them to look for a more effective way to pass their workload.

“I had to note something between 70 and 90 articles. And it was a lot as a full-time student and as a full-time worker, “they said. “What I would do is go to Chatgpt … give it the rating section and what I consider a good example of paper.”

Although they said they had examined and modified the bot production, they added that the process felt morally troubled.

“As I feel overworked and underline … I'm just going to use the classification of artificial intelligence, so I don't read 90 articles,” they said. “But afterwards, I felt a little pain about this … It always had this kind of feeling of Icky.”

They were particularly uncomfortable on how AI made decisions that could have an impact on the academic future of a student.

“I use artificial intelligence to note someone's paper,” they said. “And we don't really know … how it comes with these notes or what she was being praised.”

“Bots speaking to bots'”

Part of the frustration is due to the use of AI students, according to the teachers.

“The voice that crosses your head is a member of the faculty who says:” If they use it to write it, I will not waste my time reading. “I saw a lot of robots talk to robots,” said Anthony.

A recent study suggests that almost all students use AI to help them to a certain extent to a certain extent.

According to a survey carried out earlier this year Institute of Higher Education Policy of the United Kingdom, In 2025, almost all students (92%) now use AI in a form, compared to 66% in 2025.

When Chatgpt was released for the first time, many schools have been prohibited or have put restrictions on the use of AI.

The students were some of the first adopters of technology after its release at the end of 2022, quickly noting that they could do tests and homework in a few seconds.

The widespread use of technology created a distrust between students and teachers while teachers had trouble identifying and punishing the use of AI in work.

Now, many colleges encourage students to use technology, although appropriately. “Some students still seem to be confused – or not interested – in the place where this line is located.

The TA, which mainly taught and classified introductory classes, said Fortune “About 20% to 30% of students used the AI in terms of writing.”

Some signs were obvious, such as those who submitted articles that had nothing to do with the subject. Others have submitted work that read more elements of opinion that is not surrounded than research.

Instead of penalizing students for having used AI directly, the AT said they had accosted brands so as not to include evidence or quotes, rather than criticizing the use of AI.

They added that the articles written by AI were marked favorably when the automated classification was used.

They said that when they submitted a student newspaper obviously written in the Chatppt for the notation, the bot ranked it “really, really good”.

Lack of transparency

For Ron Martinez, the problem of using AI by teachers is the lack of transparency.

Former UC Professor of UC Berkeley and current deputy professor of English at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), said Fortune He is in advance with his students on the way, when and why he uses technology.

“I think it is really important for teachers to have an honest conversation with students at the very beginning. For example, telling them that I use AI to help me generate images for slides. But believe me, everything here is my thoughts,” he said.

He suggests being frank on the use of AI, explaining how it benefits students, such as allowing more time for the note or helping to create more equitable assessments.

In a recent example of useful use of AI, the university professor began to use large language models like Chatgpt as a kind of “double marker” to reference his rating decisions.

“I started to think, I wonder what the model of great language would say about this work if I gave it the same criteria as I use,” he said. “And on a few times, it reported the work of the students who really obtained … a higher brand that I had not given.”

In some cases, IA feedback forced Martinez to think about how unconscious biases have been able to shape its initial assessment.

“For example, I noticed that a student who never talks about their ideas in class … I had not given the student their credit due, simply because I was partial,” he said. Martinez added that AI comments led him to adjust a number of notes, generally in favor of the student.

Although some may despair that the widespread use of AI can upset the entire concept of higher education, some teachers are already starting to see the use of technology among students as a positive thing.

Anthony said Fortune He had gone from “this whole class was a waste of time” at the beginning of 2025 to “in balance, it helps more than harm”.

“I started to think that it will simply ruin education, we are just going to lower,” he said.

“Now, it seems to be balanced, helping more than harm … It is certainly a thrifty in time, but it also helps students to express themselves and to find more interesting ideas, they adapt it and apply it.”

“There is still a temptation (to cheat) … But I think these students could realize that they really need the skills that we teach life for later,” he said.