“Perceptions of humanities and health professors on the risks, benefits and feasibility of adopting hybrid texts written by students and Artificial Intelligence in undergraduate research”
Artificial Intelligence; academic writing; hybrid texts; higher education
The research investigates the perceptions of teachers in the areas of Human Sciences and Health Sciences on the appropriation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the production of hybrid texts by students at a private university in the Federal District. The research addresses the concept of artificial intelligence (Russel; Norvig 2004; Cozman; Plonski and Neri, 2021); hybrid written text (Lopes; Comas Forgas; Cerdà Navarro, 2024) and appropriation (Batista, 2018); academic integrity (Macfarlane et al. 2014), among others. The methodology follows content analysis (Bardin, 1977). At this stage of the project, interviews were conducted with six teachers, with ten planned. Among the partial results of the research, the following stand out: in the category of “negative” perceptions, the subcategory of plagiarism with 04 mentions; in the category “conditional perception”, the subcategory training with 04 indications and in the “ambivalent perception”, the relationship between those who follow ethical norms/principles versus those who don't, with two mentions; in the “positive perception”, the subcategory generator/inspirer of ideas emerged, among others with the same frequency, with 01 mention. In the category “risks and benefits attributed by teachers to the hybrid text created between AI and the student”, the “risks” were plagiarism [2], ethics and morals [2], dependence on AI [2], lack of critical reading [1] and immediacy [1]. For “benefit”, writing assistance emerged [3].In the “factors/conditions to enable the adoption of hybrid text practices (AI and students)” category, training [3], ethics and morals [1] and regulation of the use of AI [1] emerged. Teachers emphasize the need for regulation and training for the use of AI in the classroom.