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Do Students Rely on AI? Analysis of Student-ChatGPT Conversations from a Field Study
April 27, 2026
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Jiayu Zheng, et al., AIES 2025, Apr 27, 2026 Humans' reliance on AI systems is a multifaceted phenomenon influenced by a complex interplay of system-related, user-related, and task-related factors, and educators love a taxonomy, and that's what this paper (12 page PDF), true to form, produces: a taxonomy to capture students' reliance patterns, distinguishing AI competence, relevance, adoption, and students' final answer correctness.
This is the result of a study in the early days of AI with students not yet familiar with it. Reliance on AI is related to familiarity with it, according to the paper, With discussion in the wind about banning not only social media but also AI chatbots from youth access, it raises the question of how youth learn to navigate them well. More from the eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Web: [Direct Link] [This Post]
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