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College students’ use of AI has surged — despite boos at graduation ceremonies

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 448 words · By Marc Vartabedian
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College students’ use of AI has surged — despite boos at graduation ceremonies See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google The share of business school students relying on artificial intelligence as a routine part of their academic experience has surged over the past few years, according to a new survey – even as grads have heckled pro-AI speakers…

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The share of business students regularly using AI jumped from 6% to 29% over the past three years, according research from American University’s Kogod School of Business.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 16 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In May, for instance, a real estate bigwig faced mockery and boos for declaring that “artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution” during her commencement address at the University of Central Florida.”
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Claim 2: “An Inside Higher Ed flash survey of 1,038 second- and fourth-year students found 85% had fired up AI models to help them with coursework in the past year.”
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Claim 3: “Forty percent of students in the Inside Higher Ed survey said they’re concerned AI is hindering their and their peers’ ability to think independently.”
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Claim 4: “just over half said they use the tech to help them find sources of information”
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The search results for this claim returned dictionary definitions of the word 'over' and unrelated software (Overleaf), providing no factual evidence regarding student AI usage for finding sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — Insert figures, create tables, and format your writing without coding using Overleaf’s Visual Editor. Switch seamlessly to Code Editor to see the code behind your creation. Start with our example proj…
https://www.overleaf.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · The meaning of OVER is across a barrier or intervening space; specifically : across the goal line in football. How to use over in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/over
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web search NEUTRAL — Over is related to the German word über, meaning "above," like putting one piece of paper over another, or a ruling over your school, you popular person. Over can describe a distant position: your pho…
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/over
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Claim 5: “About three in four students surveyed said they use AI to help them brainstorm ideas”
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While one source mentions 75% of students use AI for homework (including brainstorming), it refers to a 'Save My Exams' survey of 1,000 students, not the Kogod/Axios survey of 483 business students mentioned in the context of the other claims. No evidence confirms the 75% figure specifically for the Kogod survey.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Moonshot AI (Moonshot; Chinese: 月之暗面; pinyin: Yuè Zhī Ànmiàn; lit. 'Dark Side of the Moon') is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Beijing, China. It is one of China's 6 "AI Tigers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshot_AI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sarvam AI (lit. 'all' or 'wholeness') is an Indian artificial intelligence company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Founded in 2023, the company develops large language models (LLMs) such as In…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvam_AI
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Claim 6: “nearly a third now use it 11 or more times a week for school or work-related tasks.”
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This specific statistic (nearly a third using AI 11+ times a week) appears in the same 'Network Today' source as claim 1, but is not corroborated by other independent sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 15.ai was a free non-commercial web application and research project that used artificial intelligence to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media. Created by a pseudo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or other forms of data. Thes…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_AI
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Claim 7: “The share of job interviews that included AI-related questions rose to 43% from 12% over the same three-year period”
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Claim 8: “Nearly nine in 10 students said they used AI from Perplexity”
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While search results discuss Perplexity AI and its use by students, none of the provided evidence corroborates the specific claim that 'nearly nine in 10 students' used it.
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web search NEUTRAL — While 65% of students believe using AI to generate ideas or outlines is acceptable, nearly an equal percentage of educators (62%) view such practices as a form of plagiarism or academic misconduct if …
https://gadgetbond.com/perplexity-ai-browser-doing-coursera-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Perplexity AI: Ideal for researchers, students, and professionals seeking reliable, cited information and organized research capabilities. ChatGPT: Great for those seeking a versatile AI assistant who…
https://www.unite.ai/perplexity-ai-review/
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web search NEUTRAL — Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
https://www.perplexity.ai/
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Claim 9: “The survey, first reported by Axios, was conducted in from 2024 to 2026 and received responses from 483 business students.”
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The claim is found in one web search result. However, the date range '2024 to 2026' is logically problematic as 2026 is in the future, suggesting a possible typo in the source text, but the source does report these specific details (Axios, 483 students).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2024 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, won a landslide victory over the go…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the State of Tennessee, one from each of the state's c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 United States Senate election in Ohio was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Ohio. Republican businessman Bernie Moreno defeated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_Senate_elec…
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Claim 10: “79% reported ChatGPT was their preferred model”
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No evidence was found in the search results to support or refute the claim that 79% of students prefer ChatGPT.
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Claim 11: “39% cited Anthropic’s Claude.”
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No evidence was found in the search results to support or refute the claim that 39% of students use Claude.
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Claim 12: “62% said they use it as a summarization tool.”
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The search results for this claim returned adult content (Rule34) and are completely irrelevant to the claim about AI summarization tools.
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Claim 13: “An April Gallup poll said 57% of US college students use AI at least weekly, with one in five saying they rely on it daily.”
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Claim 14: “More than 80% of college students have used AI for academic purposes in the past six months, according to the survey”
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The claim is explicitly stated in one web search result ('College students’ use of AI has surged — despite... - Network Today'), but no other independent sources corroborate this specific 80% figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — .ai is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is administered by the government of Anguilla. It is a popular domain hack wit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI commonly refers to artificial intelligence, which is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Ai, ai, a.i, A.I or AI may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
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Claim 15: “The share of business students regularly using AI jumped from 6% to 29% over the past three years, according research from American University’s Kogod School of Business.”
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Two independent web search results confirm that research from American University's Kogod School of Business, first shared with Axios, shows the share of business students regularly using AI rose from 6.2% to 29% over the past three years.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spring V…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL or WCL) is the law school of American University, a private research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is accredited by the Ame…
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Claim 16: “More than half of Kogod students said they are concerned about issues of academic honesty tied to AI use.”
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