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University students have moved to artificial intelligence in the same way as a new driver may require anxiety with a highly filled road map – that is, hungry and concept.

A reconnaissance From the UK university students by the Institute of Higher Education Policy shows that 92 percent of them use obstetric artificial intelligence in some way this year compared to 66 percent last year, while 88 percent used it in assessments, up from 53 percent last year.

What should universities do? My instinct will be to tend. Tell your students that you will present the same question question to a tool like Chatgpt. It will be distinguished for the best copy of the device: how many original, creative, perception or accuracy. Or give them the issuance of artificial intelligence and inform them of improving it, as well as to determine and correct hallucinations.

After all, your students in the work world depends on the amount of value they can add, in addition to what the device can spit. What’s more, studies of artificial intelligence at work indicate that these liberation and supervision tasks will become increasingly common. A Microsoft Study It was published this year on the use of knowledge workers for the Truceful artificial intelligence mark that the tool has changed the “nature of critical thinking” from “collecting information to verifying information”, from “solving problems to the integration of artificial intelligence response” and from “carrying out tasks to overseeing tasks”.

But like many wonderful solutions to complex problems, it turns out that I have a terrible idea. Maria Abrao, professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge, told me that her department had tried this way. But when they gave university students the text of artificial intelligence and asked them to improve it, the results were disappointing. She said: “The cosmetic improvements were very, and they did not change the structure of the arguments.”

Master students’ performance was better, perhaps because they had already sharpened the ability to think critically and the structure of the arguments. “Anxiety is, if we do not train them to do their own thinking, will they not develop this ability?” After the epidemic has led to a shift to the assessments that enable students to access the Internet, the ABREU section now returns to closed exam conditions.

Michael Phil, Associate Professor at the College of Law at College University in London, told me that his scourge has returned to the use of more traditional exams as well. Phil, an expert in technology policy, sees “Amnesty International” as a “threat to the learning process” because he provides an attractive shortcut to students who are pressed for time and anxiety to get good signs.

“We are worried. Our role is to warn them of these shortcuts-the abbreviations that limit their potential.

This anxiety does not only apply to the subjects based on articles. A Study of novice programmers Through the Digital ACM library, I found that students with better grades use the ISIS intelligence intelligence tools “to accelerate a solution”. Others did badly and may have gained wrong concepts, but they maintained a “unjustified illusion of efficiency” thanks to artificial intelligence.

We may soon see the same patterns at work. The workers ’study found knowledge by Microsoft (which is a great push for Amnesty International in the workplace). The II Reeded Tools” Reducing the Micro -Microscopic Misk Vocations while encouraging excessive dependence on artificial intelligence. ”

Of course, this is not a new thing. In 1983, Lazan Pinberridge put her finger on the problem in A. Famous It is called “automation paradoxes”. She said that the people who asked to be “to create machines” will find their skills and knowledge will include atrophy through regular use, which makes it difficult for them to interfere when they need to.

In many cases, that was fine. People embraced Satanaf and I forgot how Mobility properly. The world has not ended. But it will not be good for everyone to swallow unusually erupting artificial intelligence through a wide range of work tasks.

How do you avoid this future? As with programming students, it seems that the answer is to know your belongings: Microsoft’s study found that people who have self-confidence-who knew they could do the task without Amnesty International if they wanted to think more critical.

The researchers concluded that “the focus on preserving the founding skills in collecting information and solving problems will help workers avoid being exaggerated in artificial intelligence.” In other words, to use the abbreviation effectively and not with mercy, you need to know how to do this without shortening. Universities – and students – surrounds.

Sarah.oconnor@ft.com