How Students are Using AI: Here's what the Data Tell Us
/AI use by students is increasing.
The higher the education level, the more likely that students will use AI.
Business, STEM, and social-science majors are more likely to use AI and are less likely to have concerns about using it than humanities majors.
Top uses by students: information or getting explanations (50-70 percent of respondents in the studies cited above); generating ideas or brainstorming (40-50 percent); and writing support, including checking grammar, editing, starting a paper, and drafting an essay (30-50 percent).
86 percent of students who use ChatGPT for assignments say their use was undetected.
A plurality of students think AI will have both positive and negative consequences.
A study of high-school students conducted before and after AI became mainstream found no increase in the percentage of students who cheat.
15-25 percent of students across several studies feel AI should not be allowed at all in education or refuse to use it themselves.
In a survey asking students why they use AI, the strongest agreement was with the statement that AI “will not judge me” followed by anonymity.
Four out of five students think their institutions have not integrated AI sufficiently.
55 percent of students think overreliance on AI in teaching decreases the value received from a course.
89 percent are worried about AI grading.
Students think AI is important, in other words, but not that it should replace professors.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Ed