It also promises to support staff and students in “understanding the limitations and challenges of using such tools, and enable staff and students to use GenAI tools appropriately, responsibly and ethically.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Student awareness of these principles has risen as they begins to near deadlines for end of year assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Millie Longman, 19, undergraduate student said: “I appreciate why the university are learning to work with this and educate students on the best way to use AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“However, I think the university should be emphasising the importance of being able to come up with your own ideas without relying on AI.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emma Kerin, 19, undergraduate student said: “I don’t agree with it. I think it’s unnecessary and it isn’t fair to students who don’t use AI for their work.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She added she had concerns about the environmental impact of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Emma Heywood, a lecturer in the university’s Information, Journalism and Communication department, said: “It’s a bit short-sighted to never use AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In about two years time, you’ll be behind the curve, it’ll be like people who never started using the internet.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Heywood added: “I think it will extend the amount of research you’ll be able to do. But that begs the question whether it’s going to take over human analysis.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miss Longman said: “I’ve never used AI and don’t ever intend to use AI in my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “People have been able to graduate without using AI before so it’s definitely possible to never have to use AI to get my degree.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another undergraduate, 19-year-old Willow Sutherland, said: “I only use it as a last resort.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n This outlook by students appears to be motivated by ethical considerations over AI water usage and seeming less helpful than it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jemima Ainsworth, 20, undergraduate student said: “I think there are much more effective ways of helping with learning, even if they take longer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Sheffield takes a “positive approach” to the technology but also warns of “limitations and challenges”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":61624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[159,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-2","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61732,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61592\/revisions\/61732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ab6da275-7ed9-499f-9404-56c3e23a9407-1024x576.jpeg\")
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