Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming education while making finding out more available but likewise stimulating debates on its effect.

While trainees hail AI tools like ChatGPT for enhancing their learning experience, lecturers are raising concerns about the growing reliance on AI, which they argue fosters laziness and weakens scholastic stability, especially with many trainees not able to defend their tasks or given works.

Prof. Isaac Nwaogwugwu, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, in an interview with Nairametrics, bbarlock.com expressed disappointment over the growing reliance on AI-generated responses amongst trainees recounting a current experience he had.

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“I offered a task to my MBA trainees, and out of over 100 students, about 40% sent the exact very same answers. These students did not even understand each other, however they all used the very same AI tool to create their reactions,” he said.

He noted that this trend is widespread among both undergraduate and postgraduate students but is specifically concerning in part-time and range knowing programs.

“AI is a major difficulty when it concerns assignments. Many trainees no longer think critically-they just go online, produce responses, and submit,” he added.

Surprisingly, some speakers are likewise accused of over-relying on AI, setting a cycle where both educators and students turn to AI for benefit rather than intellectual rigor.

This argument raises important questions about the function of AI in scholastic integrity and student advancement.

According to a UNESCO report, while ChatGPT reached 100 million regular monthly active users in January 2023, only one nation had released guidelines on generative AI as of July 2023.

Since December 2024, ChatGPT had over 300 million individuals utilizing the AI chatbot weekly and 1 billion messages sent out every day around the globe.

Decline of academic rigor

University speakers are progressively worried about trainees submitting AI-generated assignments without genuinely understanding the content.

Dr. Felix Echekoba, a lecturer at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, expressed his issues to Nairametrics about students significantly relying on ChatGPT, only to battle with responding to standard questions when tested.

“Many trainees copy from ChatGPT and submit refined assignments, however when asked standard concerns, they go blank. It’s frustrating because education is about finding out, not simply passing courses,” he said.

- Prof. Nwaogwugwu pointed out that the increasing number of top-notch graduates can not be totally attributed to AI however confessed that even high-performing students utilize these tools.
“A top-notch student is a first-rate student, AI or not, but that doesn’t mean they do not cheat. The benefits of AI may be peripheral, but it is making trainees reliant and less analytical,” he said.

- Another speaker, Dr. Ereke, from Ebonyi State University, raised a various concern that some speakers themselves are guilty of the very same practice.
“It’s not simply students using AI slackly. Some lecturers, out of their own laziness, generate lesson notes, course details, marking plans, and even exam questions with AI without reviewing them. Students in turn utilize AI to create responses. It’s a cycle of laziness and it is eliminating genuine learning,” he lamented.

Students’ perspectives on usage

Students, on the other hand, say AI has improved their learning experience by making scholastic materials more reasonable and available.

- Eniola Arowosafe, a 300-level Business Administration student at Unilag, shared how AI has actually considerably helped her knowing by breaking down complex terms and offering summaries of lengthy texts.
“AI assisted me understand things more easily, especially when dealing with complex subjects,” she described.

However, she recalled a circumstances when she utilized AI to send her job, just for her speaker to instantly recognize that it was generated by ChatGPT and reject it. Eniola noted that it was a good-bad impact.

- Bryan Okwuba, who recently finished with a top-notch degree in Pharmacy Technology from the University of Lagos, strongly believes that his scholastic success wasn’t due to any AI tool. He attributes his impressive grades to actively engaging by asking concerns and focusing on areas that speakers emphasize in class, as they are typically reflected in examination questions.
“It’s everything about being present, focusing, and using the wealth of understanding shared by my coworkers,” he said,

- Tunde Awoshita, a final-year marketing student at UNIZIK, admits to periodically copying straight from ChatGPT when facing numerous due dates.
“To be honest, there are times I copy straight from ChatGPT when I have several due dates, and I understand I’m guilty of that, many times the lecturers do not get to check out them, however AI has actually also assisted me discover quicker.”

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