The use of AI continues to cause problems on the college campus, but this time it is professors who are in the line of fire. While it was once a faculty in higher institutions that were in the weapons about the use of AI of the students, some students are increasingly annoying about the trust of their professors.
In forums Rate my professorsThe students complained about the over -control of lectures on KI.
Some students argue that the use of AI reduces the value of their training through the instructors, especially if they pay high tuition fees to learn from human experts.
The average costs for annual tuition fees for a four -year institution in the United States are $ 17,709. When students study outside the state at a public four -year institution, this increases average costs to $ 28,445 per year, according to the Educational data for research groups.
However, others say that it is unfair that students can be punished for the use of AI, while professors mostly fly under the radar.
A student at Northeastern University Even submitted a formal complaint and requested a reimbursement of the tuition fees after determining that their professor secretly used AI tools to generate notes.
College professors told Assets The use of AI for things such as the preparation and classification of classes has become “omnipresent”.
However, they say that the problem is not to hide exactly why and how they use the technology, but in the tendency of the faculty.
Automated classification
One of the AI uses that have become most controversial is the use of the technology to evaluate students.
Rob Anthony, part of the global faculty of the Hult International Business School, told Assets This automation became “more and more omnipresent” among professors.
“Nobody really likes to use it. There is a lot of it. It takes a long time. You are not rewarded for it,” he said. “The students really take care of grades. The faculty doesn’t matter.”
This separation in combination with a relatively loose institutional supervision of the classification has led the faculty Members are looking for faster opportunities to process the ratings of the students.
“Faculty, with or without AI, often only wants to find a very quick way out of the grades,” he said. “And there is very little supervision … like you.”
However, if more and more professors simply decide to judge AI tools about the work of their students, Anthony is concerned about a homogenized evaluation system, in which the students are increasingly receiving the same feedback from professors.
“I see a lot of automatic classification in which every student essentially receives the same feedback. It is not tailor -made, it is the same script,” he said.
A college teaching assistant and full-time student who asked to stay anonymously told Assets They used chatt to evaluate dozens of student documents.
The TA said that the pressure to manage full -time studies, a job and a mountain of student tasks forced you to search for a more efficient way to go through your workload.
“I had to rate something between 70 and 90 papers. And that was a lot as a full -time student and as a full -time worker,” they said. “What I would do is to go to chat … give her the rortier rubric and what I consider for a good example of a paper.”
As they said they had checked and edited the edition of the bots, they added that the process felt morally cloudy.
“The moment I feel revised and subject to it … I will only use artificial intelligence classification so that I don’t let 90 papers through,” they said. “But after this fact I felt a little bad about it … it still had such a feeling.”
They were particularly restless, as AI made decisions that could affect the academic future of a student.
“I use artificial intelligence to evaluate someone’s paper,” they said. “And we don’t really know … how it comes to these reviews or how it is based.”
“Bots speak with bots”
Part of the frustration is due to the use of AI by the students, say professors.
“The voice that goes through your head is a faculty member who says:” If you use you to write, I will not waste my time. “I only saw many bots who spoke to bots,” said Anthony.
A recently carried out study suggests that almost all students use AI to help them to a certain extent with tasks.
According to a survey that was carried out by the early this year The British University Policy Institute, In 2025, almost all students (92%) use the AI in any form of 66% in 2024.
When Chatgpt was published for the first time, many schools either banned or used restrictions on the use of AI.
The students were some of the early users of the technology after their publication at the end of 2022 and quickly found that they were able to complete essays and tasks in seconds.
The widespread use of the technology created distrust between students and teachers when the professors had difficulty identifying and punishing the use of AI at work.
Now many colleges encourage the students to use the technology, albeit in a “appropriate way”. Some students still seem to be confused – or uninterested – where this line is.
The TA, which primarily taught and evaluated intro classes Assets “Ai used about 20 to 30% of the students to write papers.”
Some of the signs were obvious, like those who submitted papers who had nothing to do with the topic. Others submitted work that read more than unknown opinions than research.
Instead of punishing the students for the direct use of AI, the TA said that they have docked markings because they have not included any evidence or quotations instead of criticizing the use of AI.
They added that the papers written by AI were positively marked when using automatic classification.
When they said when they submitted an obviously AI-written student papers in Chatgpt for evaluation, the Bot rated him “really, very good”.
Lack of transparency
For Ron Martinez, the problem with the use of AI of professors is the lack of transparency.
The former lecturer of UC Berkeley and current assistant professor for English at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) told Assets He is in advance with his students about how, when and why he uses the technology.
“I think it is really important for professors to have an honest conversation with students from the start. For example, I tell you that I use AI to help myself generate pictures for foils. But believe me, here are all my thoughts,” he said.
He suggests being in advance about the use of AI and explaining how it benefits the students, e.g. B. More time for classification or the creation of more fairer reviews.
In a current example of helpful AI use, the university lecturer began to use large language models such as Chatgpt as a kind of “double marker” to refer its evaluation decisions.
“I started thinking that I wonder what the big language model would say about this work if I would feed the same criteria that I use,” he said. “And a few times, it has shown the work of the students who actually … a higher brand than I had given.”
In some cases, the Ki feedback Martinez forced to reflect on how unconscious prejudices may have shaped its original evaluation.
“For example, I noticed that a student who never speaks about their ideas in class … had not given the student their due loan, simply because I was biased,” he said. Martinez added that the KI feedback led to it that he adapted a number of grades, normally in favor of the student.
While some despair that the widespread use of AI can improve the entire concept of university formation, some professors already see the use of techs among the students as a positive thing.
Anthony told Assets He was of the feeling that “this whole class was a waste of time” in early 2023 “in balance, that helps more than hurt.
“I started to believe that this would only ruin education, we will only be stupid,” he said.
“Now it seems to be in balance and helps more than hurt … it is certainly a time rescuer, but it also helps the students express themselves and develop more interesting ideas, they measure it and apply it.”
“There is still a temptation (to be cheated) … but I think these students could see that they really need the skills we convey for later life,” he said.
