Survey: Faculty Say AI Is Impactful—but Not In a Good Way
Skip to main content News Faculty Teaching Advertisement January 21, 2026 Survey: Faculty Say AI Is Impactful—but Not In a Good Way Faculty members think generative AI in the classroom will increase cheating and shorten student attention spans. A minority of professors think the tools are a net positive. By Emma Whitford About a quarter of faculty don’t use any AI tools at all, and about a third don’t use them in teaching, according to the survey.
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