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Academics and AI marking: a welcome aid for overworked staff or a sloppy shortcut?

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Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the roadGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastArmin Alimardani has blue hair, is fresh faced, wears a smart watch and describes himself as “a tech enthusiast”.He is an unlikely sentinel, perhaps, to warn that a drift towards academics using generative artificial […]

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Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?

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Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdoutsFutureproofing your career with an AI-resistant degree is a tough ask, says Charlie Ball, an expert on graduate employment for Jisc, the UK’s higher education digital, data and technology agency.“What you’re trying to do

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AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows

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Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in financeAI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of computer science and economics, according to a detailed look into the careers of recent UK graduates.Data obtained for the 2027 Guardian University Guide published

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UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students’ math skills

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Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behindA math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece.The

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Writing is an exercise in the art of persuasion. If we use AI we lose the art | Alan Finkel

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Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AIA few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in which she reported on excessive use of AI chatbots by students to write their essays.In

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Thousands sign petition against cuts to tech support for disabled students in England

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DfE plans to withdraw funding for assistive software, saying it is now rarely needed due to ‘widely available free tools’Disability campaigners have called on the government to halt plans to cut funding for specialist tech support for tens of thousands of disabled students in England.Almost 10,000 people have signed a petition opposing Department for Education

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Third of university students in Great Britain think AI job losses will cause social unrest, poll finds

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Tracker of attitudes towards artificial intelligence also finds almost half of the public would prefer to avoid itOne in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so rapidly it will trigger civil unrest, according to a survey by King’s College London (KCL).Students are among the heaviest users of AI, the poll found, with

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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

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The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into wordsI have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of

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The social sciences need tools for the 21st century | Letters

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Readers respond to an editorial on difficulties with replicability of results in social science researchYour editorial on social science research (15 April) highlights the poor replicability of results, and the misuse of this by some to dismiss all social science. As was indicated, in a field as complex as human behaviour, poor replicability can be

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We need a credible plan for science funding in the UK | Letters

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Prof Ruben Saakyan and Prof Sheila Rowan respond to Prof Charlotte Deane of UK Research and InnovationIf the UK’s position in quantum computing is indeed a success story of long-term investment in fundamental science, as Prof Charlotte Deane argues (Letters, 25 March), it makes the current UK Research and Innovation approach, particularly to Science and Technology

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