NEXT FUTUREU FORUM: Mejias and Kaiser on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education

GenAI and Academic Integrity in Higher Education

February 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is not only being used by students in their written assignments, some university administrators promote its use to generate new innovations. GenAI takes large amounts of data, identifies patterns, and creates content by imitating the patterns. In academia, some may see this as a form of plagiarism that undermines academic integrity. It also may diminish the intellectual development of students by checking their critical thinking and analytical skills. How should colleges and universities cope with using GenAI on campus?

The panelists and the audience will discuss whether encouraging the adoption of GenAI directly undermines the principles of academic integrity that faculty have been trying to instill in students.

Ulíses Mejias

Dr. Ulises Mejias is Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025. He is also a co-founder of the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement and the network Tierra Común and serves on the Board of Directors of Humanities New York, a National Endowment for the Humanities affiliate. His research interests include critical internet studies, network theory and science, philosophy of technology, sociology of communication, and political economy of digital media. His most recent book (co-authored with Nick Couldry) is Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back (2024, Penguin Random House and University of Chicago Press).

READ HIS AI COMMENTARY HERE.

Zach Kaiser

Professor Zach Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University, USA. His research and creative practice examine the politics of technology and the role of design in shaping the parameters of individual, social, and political possibility. He is the author of Interfaces and Us: User-Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject (2023, Bloomsbury Visual Arts). His work has been featured in national and international exhibitions, and his writing appears in scholarly and popular publications.

READ HIS AI COMMENTARY HERE.

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