Student Guide: Collective Wisdom for Navigating AI & College

From "Ethics in the AI Era":

"It's important to still rely on your own mind and memory. If you only let AI feed you information without making the effort to truly understand and retain it, you could be doing yourself a disservice."

From "The AI Crutch":

"It's not just laziness or seeking an easy way out... For some students, using AI might be the way to negate a subject they struggle with, even if it seems easy to others."

"Everything in moderation... it should be mainly used for assistance and um and I think that you really encapsulated the idea of free thinking um and everything that requires a human to do."

From "Ethics in the AI Era":

"If you're having an automated response and you can't even want to not make your brain bigger, but just you know take in more information like you won't get that if you're using AI and you should want to challenge yourself in order to feel smarter."

From "Critical Thinking in Crisis":

"no matter how easy it is to actually get the information from AI, uh you should always remember how important your own critical thinking is and your own thoughts they can be a lot more engaging and powerful than something that AI can produce. You know, AI is good at being a tool to assist you, but it should never be  the main option. You should rely on that creativity that your brain actually has to put out - a lot more thought provoking work. And in the end, that’ll be a lot more uh self-fulfilling than just grabbing stuff from AI"

From "Digital Divides":

"I would say that yes, AI is something that can be useful if it's used responsibly. Don't try to use AI to  do the work for you. you use it to help you. If you're stuck on something or  you don't know the exact phrases that you want to use, AI could be a tool that can help you, but like don't always depend on that because it's not always going to benefit you."

From "AI Bandits":

"Remember, it's just a tool. You still need the original thought and creativity to make true magic happen...Are you letting it hold you back or are you using it as a stepping stone for growth?"

From "Dialogue with AI":

"When I use AI, I care about learning. So within my own mind, when I use it, I still make sure that I'm learning. So I'm not like, you know, lost in the sauce in class."

From "Pixel Perfect":

"I feel like just using it to brainstorm when I'm writing a script... to expand on a character's story or figuring out ways to enhance a character. I also only use AI on those little tedious assignments in class that I don't really care about."

From "Decoding Complexity":

"I've used AI in general to kind of like format outlines for myself...what I should expand on, which paragraph should talk about what topic. I think ChatGPT in that sense and maybe other AIs... is definitely a helpful thing."

From "AI Crutch":

 "AI is not to give you the answers to help guide you in the right direction....AI should be there to improve your work you've already done, not to fully do it for you...AI is not your go-to. Your first go-to should be yourself, your professor, and then probably AI if really needed."

From "Ethics in the AI Era":

"What I would say to students is figure out what works best for you, but also be a good person when you're doing it. Be ethical, be moral. It's important to always maintain your morality because without that you can literally  succumb to anything."

From "Another Level of AI":

"The students who are using AI as a second teacher or main source of information. There's nothing wrong with it. AI can be a valuable resource, helping you access material that wasn't covered in class or providing deeper analysis on topics. However, it's important to still rely on your own mind and memory. If you only let AI feed you information without making the effort to truly understand and retain it, you could be doing yourself a disservice. We all work too hard to allow ourselves to fall through the cracks and become another statistic of students allowing AI to get our dream jobs before us. Finding the right balance in how and when to use AI is crucial. It's something worth investing your time in to ensure it supports you rather than replaces and leaving you without learning your goals."

From "The Impact of AI on Creative Writing":
"I think the time that it takes to craft something also like in that time you  develop certain creative writing skills you = develop you know sort of like a stamina for  getting work done for being able to write something being able to brainstorm so that time that you are missing out on when you just leave AI to completely do your work for you kind of harms you too in a way."

From "The Human Cost":

"we should try our best not to use AI as an easy way out. Also thinking of our possible critical thinking skills as well...it's really important that we consider the often overlooked consequences of frequent AI usage,  how this can impact our social skills, our critical thinking skills, our empathy, and our creative abilities. And ultimately how this can be used to shape our future education."

From "Time Well Spent?":

"It's easy to plagiarize but the consequence can be great. Don't take away this tool that could be helpful just because of laziness. or procrastination. And I think that artificial intelligence has been given enough bad credit but we can turn it  for good, for productivity not only for students but for staff too."

From "Time Well Spent?":

"I don't know if this lack of authentic thinking could be considered productive as it's not your own production of work. It's kind of like this bundle of ideas that have already been created and uploaded to the internet and it's just AI kind of regurgitating it back to you."

From "Ethics in the AI Era":

"I know that it's very difficult to, especially in college,  juggle a lot of things. Some people are doing sports. They're athletes while trying to complete assignments. There's people who are struggling at home. I mean there's different factors why people struggle in school besides the teacher maybe not explaining something. There's also people who learn differently and have learning disabilities. It takes them a while to obtain information.  I know that it takes me so long to memorize something and I'm always the last person that leaves when I take an exam it just doesn't come naturally to me. But I would say for students to not give up on knowledge. It will take you far and, you know, it will benefit you in the future and if school's not for you, I'm sure that you can gain knowledge somewhere else, but just keep that option of being open to, you know, not taking the easy way, but the way that you can actually gain something."

From "Pixel Perfect":

"I think the best way to use AI responsibly right now is just to use it to expand your original ideas, come up with what you want, have an outline on your own and use AI to help bring that to life. Whether that's to create an image that you can't draw or enhance parts of a story for you  I think it's important to just keep originality, like make sure you have that humanistic touch and make sure that the story came from you and that you have more control over your story than a computer system."