Some university professors say AI is here to stay, so students should learn how to use it

Ashnaa Narumathan, a fourth-year kinesiology student at the University of Guelph-Humber, uses artificial intelligence to help her study and organize her life.She has used Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot to summarize academic articles and clarify certain concepts. Another tool has enabled her to turn course materials into podcasts narrated by AI voices. She has asked AI to create an hourly study plan that balances her time across several classes, then a nutrition and workout plan that fits her schedule. In writing her thesis, she used prompts to ask AI to translate the complex language of scientific papers into something more digestible.