Abstract:

This paper aims to raise awareness about recent developments in AI and urge educators to prepare for a wider application of digital tools in the future. The authors emphasize the importance of utilizing AI to achieve the goals while maintaining the integrity of examinations.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress in recent years, enabling it to be widely adopted in higher education. Today, AI can provide personalized learning experiences, create virtual learning environments and automate grading of students.
The release of ChatGPT (GPT stands for Generative pre-trained transformer) in November 2022 gave many educators and institutions cause for alarm as it provided students with access to software potentially able to assist in the writing process of papers and assignments, as well as provide help with literature reviews, identification of research questions and formatting and language reviews of articles. Hence, it became a problem for teachers in higher education that students could be tempted to use AI to write essays and other assignments intended to test their knowledge and abilities.
In a recent study, more than half of American college students believe that using AI tools to complete assignments or exams is cheating. In this paper, the authors compare these results with a similar survey of Swedish college students´ opinions.
The authors conclude that there is an urgent need to establish procedures and ethical rules for the use of AI in higher education.

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence, AI, ChatGPT, ICT, Higher Education.