Overseas campuses embrace AI while Korean universities clamp down

Cheating scandals involving artificial intelligence (AI) have continued to emerge at Korea’s top universities, prompting the government to move toward establishing the country’s first ethics framework for student use of the technology. Beyond Korea, however, universities are embracing a different approach to AI, highlighting calls for a broader shift in how the country’s higher education system responds to the AI era. “AI use has become impossible to fully restrict,” said Lim Woo-young, an economics professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He explained that the overall campus climate at HKUST is broadly supportive of AI use, with the university encouraging students to engage with the technology rather than banning it outright. At HKUST, the university does not impose a single, institution-wide mandate on how faculty should handle AI in their courses. Instead, individual professors are expected to establish clear standards on AI use and communicate them explicitly to students, including by outlining those guidelines in course syllabi. When generative AIWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times