Collegian T he Cameron University
www.aggiecentral.com
Monday, September 22, 2025
ARTIFICIAL
Volume 113 Issue 3
INTELLIGENCE
Amanda Purser Managing Editor
This column contains opinons from the editor. In classrooms across Oklahoma, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic idea — it is already reality.
Educators face daily challenges keeping up with AI’s capabilities, constantly updating policies and ensuring the available technology is being utilized ethically and effectively. AI technology is rapidly evolving with new tools and options being developed every day by some of the biggest names in the game, like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Meta. Currently, there are software options that provide a wide array of resources, from those with generative capabilities like ChatGPT and Gemini, writing and grammar assistance like Grammarly or Microsoft Editor, and even audio transcription applications that read PDFs and text from books or notes aloud to users, like Speechify or Natural Reader. Not all students are convinced that the aforementioned applications should be a first choice, and some urge that an unchecked reliance on AI could erode critical thinking skills and tarnish academic standards. Senior Journalism and Media Production student and Media Intern at KCCU public radio station on campus Serenity Clark subscribes to
the latter. “Much of our curriculum has been proven to work, educate and guarantee degrees through years of feedback-based research, trial and error and repeated examination,” Clark said. “It is very much possible to complete your work without an AI like ChatGPT, and to do it well. To me, it’s lazy and it’s a bit like cheating." Clark said, "I think there’s an excitement because it’s newer technology and there’s a dire urge to want to use generative AI and things like that because it’s new and we’re consumptive creatures, but we’ve come a really long way without it. Using it for tasks as simple as homework feels like regressing.”
G ra p
hic s b
y Jak
e T ho
Use Policy to aid school districts across the state with integrating AI responsibly, while addressing academic concerns surrounding integrity, equitable access and privacy. Cameron University’s Student Code of Conduct does not contain any sections related to a specific AI policy or guidelines dictating acceptable standards of use. These decisions are seemingly at the professor’s discretion, and most have provisions in their syllabi to outline their preferences on what level of AI assistance is permitted in their classroom. Professors typically operate off the same guidelines they have implemented for plagiarism and cheating, but the ethical amount of AI assistance allowed to be incorporated in a classroom is still to be decided. While AI has potential to be a powerful tool if used effectively, another facet
battle. There is an abundance of seemingly AI generated graphic designs and promotional materials circulating around campus, and the idea of faculty and administrators relying on the software with talented students available all around them, is only reflecting them in poor light. Clark thinks the use of AI by administrators and departments across campus is disheartening, especially to the art and media majors. “We have students campus-wide with valuable skills and a desire to learn and be able to showcase those skills,” Clark said. “To overlook them in favor of a quick AI generated image feels extremely insulting, especially when you consider the environmental effect of AI tech and how so many of those generators use stolen art from real artists. AI has valuable applications in the real world I won’t deny, especially in the medical and computer science fields, but it has no place in art.” She is not alone in that ideology, as students on campus have been voicing concerns about these recent practices and the hypocrisy involved. Considering AI isn’t exactly encouraged by most professors and potentially prohibited by others, seeing it becoming the default in areas that have better solutions is
ma s
According to KTUL in Tulsa, the Oklahoma AI Education Summit, which took place in September 2025, provided a statewide survey that indicated nearly 8 out of every 10 Oklahoma students regularly use AI tools for assignments. The summit leaders reportedly urged educators to embrace AI capabilities since students are already utilizing them, and the technology isn’t going away anytime soon. Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) has a Model AI
of the problem is lack of training for these technologies. Most students lack adequate guidance on ethical AI usage nor how to maximize its educational benefits, and there hasn’t been much effort from Cameron to change that. If the object is to master this technology and capitalize on its potential, Aggies are being left to learn for themselves and find their own way through this intelligence
ICYMI...
discouraging. Aggies aren’t just using their voices to object; they have begun to organize across campus with the passing of a recent Student Government Association resolution to display student art in the available spaces on campus, like the McMahon Centennial Complex.
We have a Reader Incentive this semester!
Solve the crossword in each issue and collect the letter from the GOLD box. You should already have TWO letters so far, and this issue provides the third. Submitting the special 8-letter word later this semester will enter you into a drawing to win a GIFT BASKET!
What’s Inside TPUSA Memorial Page 2
More Info on Page 5 NEW! Fine Arts Society
Robotics Club Volunteers
Page 4
Page 6