Syracuse University announced they will offer AI to students and faculty.
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Syracuse University says it will provide artificial intelligence campuswide. NCC’s Jack Lesser has more.
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Syracuse is leading the charge in blending AI with education. The university says it will offer Anthropic’s Claude to students and faculty for educational purposes.
Syracuse professor of artificial intelligence Paulo Shakarian says teachers need to adapt their methods as AI becomes more common.
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“What if students just start using it for all their assignments? Well, what that tells me is that we need to make adjustments in the classroom to account for that. If there are certain things where it’s not supposed to be used, how do we enforce that? How do we answer that question?”
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Shakarian says the arrival of Claude does not take away from the importance of independent analysis.
Shakarian:
“The skills of critical thinking, of systems thinking, of thinking logically — those will always be taught here.”
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The university says it still reserves the right to investigate students for inappropriate use of the software.
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Jack Lesser, NCC News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Syracuse University will provide access to Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence tool to students and faculty, the school announced.
Paulo Shakarian, a professor of artificial intelligence at Syracuse, said the growing presence of AI means instructors must adapt.
“What if students just start using it for all their assignments? Well, what that tells me is that we need to make adjustments in the classroom to account for that. If there are certain things where it’s not supposed to be used, how do we enforce that? How do we answer that question?” Shakarian said.
Shakarian said the introduction of AI does not replace the importance of independent analysis.
“The skills of critical thinking, of systems thinking, of thinking logically, those will always be taught here,” he said.
The university policy still reserves the right to investigate students for inappropriate use of the software.