I think it is too much when AI does the thinking for you. Like if AI is summarizing everything, explaining everything and basically doing your work for you, you are not actually learning. Dinsmore and Fryer say learning depends on building knowledge step by step and practicing those skills, and there are not really any shortcuts to that. So once AI replaces that process, it’s hurting more than helping.

My concerns are that every time we use AI, we put in our ideas, questions, and sometimes personal information. That can be stored or used to improve it. Even if it’s helpful now, long term it can cause privacy issues, especially if students don’t know what’s being saved in it.

The gray area is when its helping, but it isn’t fully taking over. Like if you are using Ai to clean up your writing or check if an idea makes sense is fine. But using it to come up with the actual idea itself or do the whole assignment is different. It really just comes down to if the work is actually done by you or not.

Colleges shouldn’t ban it or anything, but they need to be sure they are clear about what is okay, most likely by putting it in the syllabus or course policies. It’s just about making sure students are aware to use AI for brainstorming something or feedback on their work but not for the whole assignment. That way people can still learn and use it the right way.

I think AI is going to be part of almost every job. So instead of relying on it, I would need to learn how to use it the right way while still having my own knowledge. I also think a good solution to control it would be to make students show their work on assignments.

Dinsmore, D. L., & Fryer, L. K. (2026). What does genAI mean for student learning? Learning and Individual Differences.