Filtered by category: HEPI UK, tag: academic integrity × Clear
AI and the humanities: crisis or opportunity?
Matched: Artificial Intelligence, generative AI
AI poses both a threat and opportunity to humanities education. LLMs risk devaluing degrees if students submit AI-generated work — professors identified it correctly only 53% of the time in one study. Yet graduates who develop genuinely human skills like critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and cultural understanding may become more valuable to employers precisely because AI cannot replicate these abilities. Universities should adopt assessments, such as oral exams, that cannot be AI-generated.
WEEKEND READING: When academic misconduct becomes an identity: what happens after the sanction?
Matched: generative AI
Academic misconduct procedures focus on detection, investigation, and sanction but rarely address what comes next for students. Dr Manesha Peiris argues institutions should consider reintegration — allowing students to demonstrate learning and rebuild trust without past findings permanently shaping how their work is viewed. She also raises equity concerns around GenAI, warning that markers of "suspicious" work may disadvantage some students disproportionately.