State of AI

What campus staff actually say about AI.

Not a survey. This is what came up in 141 staff discovery conversations, read one at a time, alongside what 1,516 classified campus AI policies show about how institutions are writing the rules.

Sentiment towards AI

Disengaged
23· 27%

Deflected, or answered factually with no read on AI

Skeptical
11· 13%

Leaned towards concerns, limits, or not using it

Ambivalent
15· 17%

Said something either way, without leaning far

Curious
13· 15%

Asked to learn more, stopped short of a view

Positive
24· 28%

Leaned clearly towards approval

What they are worried about.

Students bypass the learning17

AI does the assignment, so the thinking never happens

Output nobody verified13

Hallucinated, stale or generic AI content passed off as fact

Can't prove who wrote it10

No reliable way to separate AI text from student text without false accusations

Nobody knows what's allowed9

No institutional policy, training or tool vetting to point staff at

Sensitive data walks into a chatbot9

Student and college records pasted into tools that may train on them

AI creeping into the teaching itself7

Grading, course content and embedded features displacing instructors

AI turned against the college2

Phishing, ghost-student aid fraud and vendor spam at machine scale

The exam room isn't lockable2

Phones, smart glasses and lens search defeat proctoring

The tools that actually come up.

AI assistantPlatform with AI built inAcademic integrity
Microsoft Copilot47 · 33%
ChatGPT19 · 13%
Canvas LMS8 · 6%
Claude4 · 3%
Google Gemini4 · 3%
Turnitin4 · 3%
Honorlock2 · 1%
Perplexity2 · 1%
Respondus2 · 1%
Adobe1 · 1%
SchoolAI1 · 1%
The AI Policy Database

What campuses are putting in writing.

Every published campus AI policy we can find, read and scored. Free to browse.

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