“I used it my first semester here and used it in the cheating form, I definitely didn’t spend time and it kind of showed,” Mitchell said. “I did pass, but the next semester and the following got a lot harder because each class got more in depth.”
Mitchell said using AI could either benefit or harm students depending on if they intentionally work to gain the skills they’re using the AI for.
“There’s pros and cons to it, but if you want to use it, people should use it to their own benefit and learn from it instead of typing in a question and getting it online,” he said. “If you want to end up doing good, then spend time actually learning with the program you’re using.”
Should LSU set rules?
Last month, LSU posted a guide for faculty members about ChatGPT and similar tools, explaining what they are, what they can and cannot do, and how some educators have used them. But, so far, LSU has not set many explicit rules for what is and is not an acceptable use for AI.
Camille May, a sophomore kinesiology major at LSU, said she would prefer LSU have a formal policy in place for AI usage to help students who are having a hard time.
“They should have some form of policy just to make sure that it fits their guidelines, but it should be in place though for those who learn differently and who are struggling,” she said. “I know a lot of people who are struggling, so they should have some form of policy that fits in their curriculum but works for them and works for their students.”
Some professors, however, don’t want the university setting top-down policies for artificial intelligence.
“I think that as a faculty member, I don’t want LSU to dictate what I should be doing with AI in the classroom,” Baumgartner said. “I think it should be left to the individual faculty members to decide whether, for a particular course, it would be a useful tool to use or whether it would be considered cheating.”
Singh said that though AI could forever change the way that higher education operates in the future, there is value in reminding students of their unique abilities and emphasizing talents that AI could never replace.
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