Elon and the American Association of Colleges and Universities find 95% of college faculty fear student overreliance on AI

A new survey of college and university faculty nationwide finds widespread concern and skepticism about how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is affecting their teaching and student performance across academic disciplines. Key findings include:

• 95% of the faculty in this survey said GenAI’s impact will be to increase students’ overreliance on these artificial intelligence tools, including 75% who said the tools will have a lot of impact.
• 90% said the use of GenAI will diminish students’ critical thinking skills, including 66% who think GenAI will have a lot of impact.
• 83% said the use of GenAI will decrease student attention spans, including 62% who thought GenAI will have a lot of impact.
• 86% said they believe it is likely or extremely likely that the emergence of GenAI tools will impact the work and role of those who teach in higher education.
• 79% think the typical teaching model in their department will be affected by GenAI tools at least to some extent, including 43% who said they believe the impact will be significant.