Ohio State U. to Start Teaching Students How to Use AI This Fall

Ohio State U. to Start Teaching Students How to Use AI This Fall

This is the future of things. It’s hard to imagine all the ways this technology will eventually touch our lives.

The Hill reports:

Ohio State says every student will become fluent in AI with new program

While other schools have been cracking down on students using artificial intelligence, the Ohio State University says all of its students will be using it starting this fall.

“Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area,” Ravi V. Bellamkonda, executive vice president and provost, said.

Ohio State’s AI Fluency Initiative will embed AI education throughout the undergraduate curriculum. The program will prioritize the incoming freshman class and onward, in order to make every Ohio State graduate “fluent in AI and how it can be responsibly applied to advance their field.”

The change comes as students are increasingly using ChatGPT and other resources to complete their schoolwork. The Pew Research Center found 26% of teenagers used ChatGPT for schoolwork in 2024, twice as many as in 2023.

With AI quickly becoming mainstream, some professors, like Steven Brown, an associate professor of philosophy at Ohio State, who specializes in ethics, have already begun integrating AI into their courses.

“…A student walked up to me after turning in the first batch of AI-assisted papers and thanked me for such a fun assignment. And then when I graded them and found a lot of really creative ideas,” Brown said during a recent interview with Ohio State. “My favorite one is still a paper on karma and the practice of returning shopping carts.”

OSU said it will offer new general education courses and work with colleges to integrate AI fluency into coursework and help expand existing AI-focused course offerings. Each of Ohio’s 14 public universities has incorporated AI in some way, but OSU is the first to officially incorporate AI fluency into every major.

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