It’s Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Technique
- By Yolanda Watson Spiva
- 05/18/26
Three years after the public release of ChatGPT, despite all the color and cry about generative artificial intelligence damaging writing, interfering with class, and heralding the collapse of teaching and knowing as we understand it, the education sector merely can’t get enough of this technology.
< img src="https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/5978/eof.cam&t=item%253daccc069e_dd7c_4654_aea9_d699b6f8e408%26pos%253dbox_c1%26Topic%253dOpinions_and_Expert_Commentary%252cArtificial_Intelligence%252cFeatures_and_Cover_Stories%252cCentral_IT%252cIT_Leadership%252cGenAI%252cARTICLE_TYPE%252cAUDIENCE&sz=300x250|640x481 & tile = 4 & c = 123456789" alt =""/ > A recent Microsoft report found that education has the highest AI usage rate of any market, with almost 9 in 10 education institutions globally reporting that trainees, trainers, and campus leaders are using generative AI. On college campuses in the United States, AI use has far surpassed efforts from policymakers and organizations to assist or regulate it. The latest Educause survey of higher education’s AI landscape discovered that fewer than 60% of organizations consider AI to be a strategic concern which less than 40% have policies on acceptable AI use.