Study 2024: The impact of generative AI on students

About this resource

The study, “The Impact of Generative AIs on Students”, was based on data from the survey conducted in February and March 2024 as part of De Vinci Higher Education’s transversal educational hackathon: Artificial Intelligence, Generative AIs and their societal challenges. For 5 days, this hackathon brought together 1,600^4th-year students from three De Vinci Higher Education schools: EMLV (Management), ESILV (Engineering) and IIM (Digital).

This study marks a world first, analyzing the impact of generative AI technologies on 4th year graduate students following a variety of academic courses: Management, Engineering, Digital and Creative.

Carried out in two massive waves, at the very start of the hackathon (1,119 responses) and post-hackathon (711 responses), the survey captured students’ perspectives. It enabled them to express their uses, understanding and future projections for generative AI, through almost 150 quantitative and qualitative questions.

This initiative sheds light not only on current uses, but also on the expectations of younger generations with regard to these technologies. It also provides valuable data for economic and academic decision-makers. It provides an additional perspective to illustrate the recommendations of the National Artificial Intelligence Commission’s report, “AI: our ambition for France”, published in March 2024.

In this respect, De Vinci Higher Education’s cross-disciplinary pedagogical hackathon proved to be highly effective in training people in record time to better understand and integrate the advantages and disadvantages of generative AI.

Language: EN

37 pages

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Pedagogical information

Study 2024: The impact of generative AI on students:

• Students’ perception of artificial intelligence,
• The use of generative AI,
• The most widely used generative AIs,
• The uses and benefits of generative AI,
• Focus on ChatGPT,
• A clear and simple expectation: continuous training, a challenge specific to generative AI,
• Generative AI in the workplace: what lessons can companies learn from it?
• Social and environmental issues related to generative AI,
• The Pole Léonard de Vinci’s AI and generative AI hackathon, a particularly effective way of learning about and understanding the challenges of generative AI,
• To find out more.