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Coursera’ s AI in Higher Education Report surveyed 4,200 students and educators from universities in the UK, US, Mexico, India and Saudi Arabia and found that only 27 % of educators feel confident they can detect AI-generated content. Similarly, only 25 % of faculty believe they and their peers have the right skills to use AI to their advantage.

This lack of faculty confidence accompanies an increasing prevalence in student use of AI, as university students worldwide admit they are using AI to complete almost half( 44 %) of their study tasks. This usage is delivering clear academic benefits, with four in five( 80 %) students seeing improvement in their grades since using AI and 35 % saying their grades have substantially improved. system in their country is unprepared to handle AI. However, only 26 % of global educators surveyed say their university has a policy in place with regard to AI usage.

Almost two-thirds( 65 %) of university educators and students believe unregulated AI could undermine degrees, while more than half( 54 %) say that using AI to help with university work should be considered cheating.

Additional global findings:

• Thirty percent of UK universities have a formal policy on AI usage, the highest proportion compared to the 26 % global average

• Fourteen percent of educators and students in the US view AI as having a negative impact on higher education, higher than the global average of 9 %

• Fifty-three percent of university students in India believe AI positively impacts their studies, significantly above the 37 % global average

• Ninety-one percent of students and educators in Saudi Arabia are positive about AI’ s overall impact on higher education, the highest globally, compared to an 83 % average

• Sixty-nine percent of Mexican students agree that AI has already improved their grades, but this is the lowest percentage among the countries surveyed. • Correspondingly, the majority( 83 %) of university students believe AI is having a positive impact on higher education, with just 7 % believing it is having a negative impact.

While educators worldwide express primarily positive sentiments( 77 % positive), they are more cautious than students, with more than one in 10( 11 %) believing AI is having a negative impact on higher education. Yet despite confidence gaps, AI adoption is also increasing among educators, with 71 % using AI often or always in their work.

Concerns grow over AI policy gaps and academic integrity

More than half( 56 %) of university students and educators say that the higher education

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