85% of College Students Report AI Use (insidehighered.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/2328220/85-of-college-students-report-ai-use
- Source link: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2025/08/29/survey-college-students-views-ai
Students overwhelmingly reject institutional policing approaches, with 53% favoring education on ethical AI use over detection software deployment. Despite widespread adoption, 35% of respondents report no change in their perception of college value, while 23% view their degrees as more valuable in the AI era.
[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2025/08/29/survey-college-students-views-ai
PSA: this is your brain on AI. (Score:2)
Is this anything like drug use?
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I tried asking ChatGPT to quiz me on some stuff that I was learning, and some of its own quiz answers were wrong. So, it can't be trusted.
But I have also asked it some very technical questions for stuff I needed to get up-to-speed on for work, and the info was very useful and turned out to all be correct.
So, it seems like it is still hit-or-miss.
Cheating isn't OK, but... (Score:2)
College (and school at all levels) have had crap homework for a long time. Many schools have substituted make-work for real learning. And AP classes are worse. They aren't more intellectually stimulating, they just have more tons of homework.
Specifically...
Multiple choice tests are usually poorly designed. Two of the four answers are usually ridiculously wrong, so much so that it's possible to exclude them without knowing the material. Then it's usually a 50/50 chance of guessing the right answer from the o
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> Use class time for assignments
That how a [1] Flipped classroom [wikipedia.org] works.
Students watch a video of the lecture and then complete the "homework" in class, applying what they learned from the video, while the teacher moves around the classroom to help those who are stuck.
This prevents cheating and also helps ADHD students who struggle to sit still through a lecture.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
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Cool, I'm glad the concept has a name. Maybe AI will help give it some traction, as it makes the old hyper-homework model more difficult to implement.
So to be fair this was 8 years ago (Score:2)
And 12 if we're going back to high school but my kid's homework wasn't make work there was just too damn to much of it.
I have mentioned before but even going back to high school I would sometimes wake up at midnight to take a whiz and find my kids still working on homework.
In college my kid had all the regular general education stuff you would expect on top of a ton of on-the-job training they had to do to graduate.
Naturally we had to pay for all that and naturally when they got out of college h
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I mostly agree with you, especially about the "too much homework" sentiment.
But not this:
> The kids especially are literally competing for who gets to have food and shelter at this point
No, they aren't. The college grad unemployment rate is just 5.2%. [1]https://apnews.com/article/col... [apnews.com]. If you can't beat out the bottom 5.2% of graduates for a job, you aren't competing, you're slacking.
For high school unemployment rates, I don't have current numbers, but in 2022 it was 4.2%. [2]https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2... [bls.gov].
As for competition for classes, this is only true in big name-brand schools. There are plenty of
[1] https://apnews.com/article/college-graduates-job-market-unemployment-c5e881d0a5c069de08085a47fa58f90f#:~:text=For%20college%20graduates%2022%20to,far%20above%20the%20nationwide%20rate
[2] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/high-school-graduates-with-no-college-had-unemployment-rate-of-4-5-percent-in-february-2022.htm#:~:text=PRINT:-,High%20school%20graduates%20with%20no%20college%20had%20unemployment,4.5%20percent%20in%20February%202022&text=In%20February%202022%2C%20the%20unemployment,unemployment%20rate%20at%202.2%20percent
Doomed as doomed can be. (Score:2)
If students think AIs can provide answers, then the same AIs can fill the jobs they're ostensibly going to school for.
But it also depends on instructors getting a clue and grading on original thought and not rote recital.
College was quite a bit different back in my day (Score:2)
We had 85% of students with a case of a sexually transmitted disease, except for the engineering department of course.
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The U3-unemployment rate for recent grads is 5.8%, not 85%, but that is still higher than the national average of 4.2% for all workers.
The days when a college degree automatically led to a good job are long gone.
Students need to understand that they should not choose a major based on what they find most interesting, but rather something interesting that also leads to a job.
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They aren't long gone. That's something people who want to shut down college and learning tell you.
It really is only in the last five or six years that college grads had higher unemployment. And hilariously the liberal arts degrees still have low unemployment. It's the tech industry getting its ass kicked. Fuck tons of h1b's brought in bulk.
Every now and then I see a little bit of rebellion on the internet over the sheer amount of cheap overseas work visa labor being brought in. But the right wing s
There is that (Score:2)
..but also a lot of graduate level jobs are going to be eliminated by AI, and those that are still open will be taken by displaced mid career employees desperate for work. I must admit I'm in two minds as to whether this is a realistic scenario, in general, but specifically I'd have thought a lot of database and coding jobs will be lost due to AI, even if it advances little further than its current state. I've often wondered about how someone who has used AI for 4 years will cope in their final exams, where
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> a lot of graduate level jobs are going to be eliminated by AI
And a lot of other jobs will be created. Historically, the jobs created have been more numerous and more lucrative than the jobs eliminated. Maybe "this time is different", but that isn't clear. We are well into 3rd-Wave AI, and so far, we still have near record low unemployment.
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Things aren't quite *that* bad. The unemployment rate for recent graduates is 5.8%. [1]https://apnews.com/article/col... [apnews.com].
Sure, a lot of those students are classified as under-employed. But it's 52%, not 85%. [2]https://www.insidehighered.com... [insidehighered.com]
Many students are under-employed because they majored in subjects that are not in demand. Sorry, that humanities major just doesn't lead to a wide variety of job offers. For those students, being under-employed seems reasonable, until they figure out something more substant
[1] https://apnews.com/article/college-graduates-job-market-unemployment-c5e881d0a5c069de08085a47fa58f90f#:~:text=For%20college%20graduates%2022%20to,far%20above%20the%20nationwide%20rate
[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2024/02/22/more-half-recent-four-year-college-grads-underemployed