Alexander Mazhuga, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, told socialbites.ca that students do not have a negative attitude towards the use of artificial intelligence technologies when writing their final qualification work (WQR). The deputy noted that the student must independently formulate the task of processing the text broadcast by artificial intelligence, even when using a neural network.
“My attitude here is not negative. I can’t say that I was very supportive, but sooner or later it had to happen. It is very important to remember that artificial intelligence only works with the instruction of the student. The student should formulate the purpose and content of the final competency study himself. And considering the point of technology today, artificial intelligence “The text that produces the text is still a text that needs to be studied. Therefore, there is still student participation in determining the target, task and explanation of the WRC topic,” he said.
Mazhuga added that artificial intelligence is helping to find and organize information, but most of the work is still done by the student. At the same time, according to the deputy, works written using artificial intelligence must also be marked.
“Artificial intelligence is a kind of assistant that allows you to quickly access information. We know that there is a huge amount of information today and it is very difficult to do it manually. It helps to partially systematize somewhere. However, the role of the student is great here. It is important that supervisors take the process of writing students’ final competency work seriously and participate actively in the discussion and review processes. And if the university has legally allowed this at the level of a local regulatory document, then such work will probably need to be marked somehow – “partly carried out using artificial intelligence”. In general, I don’t see anything catastrophic here,” he stressed.
Mazhuga explained that there are no bans on the use of neural networks and that many students are already using them while writing papers.
“We do not have an official ban on the use of AI. And students, to tell the truth, use artificial intelligence tools while writing. Only this university was the first university to make it public. Our students often use the services of third-party organizations to write thesis. And now I don’t know what is better here – paying someone to write a thesis for you or doing it yourself using artificial intelligence? It is a normal, clear and understandable instruction from university leadership to students and most importantly to scientific leaders,” he concluded.
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