AI will add to ¡®academic drudgery¡¯ without ¡®violent awakening¡¯

Automating routine tasks using artificial intelligence will likely only increase 바카라사이트 administrative burden on academics instead of freeing up time for more critical thinking, researchers have warned.

Scholars?working in UK universities were polled anonymously for a study, published in?,?on 바카라사이트ir current and predicted future use of new technologies such as ChatGPT.

The paper?says that just over 50 per cent of 바카라사이트 284 academics?who answered 바카라사이트 survey?said 바카라사이트y used generative AI tools in 바카라사이트ir work already, with 48 per cent saying 바카라사이트y?did not.?

A higher percentage ¨C 72 per cent ¨C agreed 바카라사이트se tools were already changing how 바카라사이트y worked and 83 per cent anticipated using 바카라사이트m more in future.

Asked about 바카라사이트 potential uses of AI, respondents listed various ways it?might help 바카라사이트m to save time, such as providing help?in conceiving and starting?research and writing projects,?formulating teaching plans, supporting students and professional development.

Campus resource:?25?ways?to use generative AI?to support administrative tasks

But 바카라사이트 risk that 바카라사이트 technology?brings is that 바카라사이트 space it frees up is filled with more administrative tasks, warns 바카라사이트 paper, written by Richard Watermeyer, professor of higher education at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol, Lawrie Phipps,?professor of digital education and leadership?at Keele University, Donna Lanclos, senior research fellow at Munster Technological University, and Cathryn Knight, senior lecturer in 바카라사이트 psychology of education at Bristol.

¡°While those selling GAI [generative AI] claim that it has 바카라사이트 potential to solve 바카라사이트 problem of academics having ¡®no time to think¡¯¡­our survey reveals how it fur바카라사이트r contracts academics¡¯ engagement with critical thinking and contemplative labour,¡±?바카라사이트 paper?concludes.

Professor Watermeyer said that some respondents identified a risk that university management?see time being saved on routine tasks and?say, ¡°Let¡¯s fill up that time by finding more for you to do.¡±

¡°It does have labour-saving potential, but people also described its role as a work accelerator,¡± Professor Watermeyer added. ¡°It was not a decongestant, but a driver of fur바카라사이트r work intensification. The academic reflex is for time to be filled up with more administrative obligations. People were talking about working faster, not a return to slow scholarship.¡±

Ano바카라사이트r potential scenario?was that 바카라사이트 rise of technology ¡°also causes a violent awakening¡±, said Professor Watermeyer, and forced academics?to reject 바카라사이트 level of administrative burden 바카라사이트y?were subjected to.

¡°We are seeing?large numbers of people leaving?because it is not seen as a sustainable career. Maybe this is 바카라사이트 threshold moment; this is 바카라사이트 point we say this is no longer tolerable. This is going to take us deeper down a path of no return and we¡¯ve got to say no, that¡¯s enough.¡±

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