The growing use of AI tools by students may have the unintended effect of isolating them from faculty and peers. Writing in The Markup, Tara García Mathewson notes that as students come to rely on AI tools for various types of help and information in the course of their studies, they my also come to rely less on faculty and fellow students when they need such help.
Students who interact less frequently with faculty, peers, and institutional staff have fewer opportunities to create networks that may be useful as they move forward in their studies and particularly when they attempt to transition to the workplace. Getting quick answers to their questions may seem very efficient in the short term, but the longer term impact may well be negative. As one of the students interviewed noted “A chatbot isn’t going to give you a letter of recommendation.”
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