Survey: Faculty Say AI Is Impactful--but Not In a Good Way

[Coventina]

Faculty overwhelmingly agree that generative artificial intelligence will have an impact on teaching and learning in higher education, but whether that impact is positive or negative is still up for debate.

Nine in 10 faculty members say that generative AI will diminish students’ critical thinking skills, and 95 percent say its impact will increase students’ overreliance on AI tools over time, according to a report out today from the American Association of Colleges and Universities and Elon University.

In November, the groups surveyed 1,057 faculty members at U.S. institutions about their thoughts on generative AI’s impact. Eighty-three percent of faculty said the technology will decrease students’ attention spans, and 79 percent said they think the typical teaching model in their department will be affected by AI.

Most professors—86 percent—said that the impact of AI on teachers will be “significant and transformative or at least noticeable,” the report states. Only 4 percent said that AI’s effect on teaching will “not amount to much.” About half of faculty respondents said AI will have a negative effect on students’ careers over the next five years, while 20 percent said it will have a positive effect and another 20 percent said it will be equally negative and positive.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/teaching/2026/01/21/survey-faculty-say-ai-impactful-not-good-way

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AI will be the worst thing to happen to humanity since....maybe ever.
We will become slaves to technology.
Incapable of thinking for ourselves.
I already see it in my students. They don't want to "learn" anything, because they can just ask ChatGPT to tell them whatever they want to know.