ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCE OF STUDENTS FROM A PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCE OF STUDENTS FROM A PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Summary/Abstract: Introduction: The explosive growth of ChatGPT in 2022 has resulted in the terms “ChatGPT”and “AI” (artificial intelligence) becoming almost synonymous in popular perception and ev-eryday speech.Research Aim: The research was a pilot study and its aim was identification of knowledge andexperiences of first-year students from the Maria Grzegorzewska University related to AI.Research Method: Diagnostic survey using an electronic survey questionnaire.Results: The survey participants had a broad understanding of the concept of AI. They mostoften identified it with technology (50.00%). The most common use of AI was generating andworking with text (51.35%). All of participants had contact with AI, but 15% had not usedit. Most of them encountered it for the first time in the media (52.50%), and they most oftengained knowledge about AI from the Internet (76.25%). The largest number of students usingAI tools (66.18%) indicated text generators, of which 84.44% were ChatGPT. The participantsare supporters of using AI in educational institutions, but most of them did not even knowthe university guidelines regarding the use of AI in education and declared that they were notinterested in them. More than half of the participants believed that using AI tools to completetasks and exams constitutes cheating or plagiarism and is morally wrong. A statistically signif-icant relationship was found between using AI tools and the opinion on the morality of usingthem to solve assignments and exams. In other cases, a tendency toward a relationship wasobserved, specifically in the following areas: 1) the field of study and the knowledge about thetools, regulations and rules regarding the use of AI tools to complete tasks, exams and thesesavailable at the university; 2) the completed secondary school profile and the knowledge about the tools, regulations and rules regarding the use of AI tools to preparation of theses availableat the university; 3) using AI tools and interest in guidelines on the use of AI at the university.Conclusions: The conducted research may be a contribution to the analysis of students’ knowl-edge and behaviours related to AI. As research among students from the Maria GrzegorzewskaUniversity shows, they are supporters of using AI tools in educational institutions. Bearing thisin mind, as well as the fact that graduates the Maria Grzegorzewska University will work withchildren and young people, for whom AI may become one of the most important learningtools, attention should be paid to properly preparing them for the use of AI in their profes-sional work, including this technology in educational programs, while emphasizing ethicaland moral issues.

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