As AI Infiltrates Curriculums, College Kids Want None of It (1)

Officials at the University of South Carolina have described the $1.5 million partnership it signed last summer with OpenAI as a path toward smarter research, better time management and around-the-clock learning support. Undergrad Brooklyn Tyner sees it another way. “We’re not excited to see these advancements in AI if it means it’s going to pollute our environment, spread misinformation, track us and take our jobs,” says Tyner, 20, who calls OpenAI’s ChatGPT a “cheating machine.”

This spring, when the university organized its first ever “AI Day” to bring leaders in artificial intelligence from Microsoft Corp. and Gartner Inc. to campus, ...