The vast majority of students have identified issues with work generated by artificial intelligence (AI) but less than half say they regularly check or verify its output, according to a major new survey on public attitudes towards new technologies.
The research by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Policy Institute at King’s College London found that those attending universities often had conflicting views on the impact of AI and its usefulness.
More than half (56 per cent) of students polled say they are using AI a few times a week – compared with 33 per cent of the general population.
Nearly nine in 10 students (85 per cent) who use AI have found there were problems with the work or content it produced. The most common problems were factual errors or inaccuracies (37 per cent) and hallucinations such as made-up sources or statistics (31 per cent).
Despite this, 19 per cent of students admitted to rarely or never verifying the final output. Only 15 per cent say they always check, and 28 per cent say they usually do.
