1. Introduction

Since late 2022, the arrival of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT has fundamentally changed how higher education operates. The shift does not stop at a single aspect; it touches nearly every domain of academic activity: learning, teaching, assignments, assessment, research, and community service. These six domains together reflect the Tridharma of Indonesian higher education as well as the daily working cycle of a lecturer.

The speed of adoption has created a peculiar situation. On one side, students have rapidly adopted a range of AI tools to help with their coursework. On the other, many lecturers have fallen behind, lacking the readiness to respond to this change productively. That gap is the starting point of this paper.

Three fundamental questions guide the discussion. First, what are the main challenges academics face in using AI. Second, what opportunities can be optimised from the presence of AI for academic productivity. Third, how can a strategy for uplevelling academic competence in the AI era be designed realistically, rather than as idealism that is difficult to carry out.

This paper is written in the spirit of “learning with the learning machine”. The phrase is chosen deliberately to stress that the ideal relationship between academics and AI is neither rejection nor blind dependence, but an equal learning partnership: humans learn to use AI wisely, while the AI system itself literally keeps “learning” from the data it is given.

2. Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Getting the Terminology Straight

Before examining challenges and opportunities in depth, it is important to align our understanding of the terminology. Terms such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Large Language Model, Generative AI, and Natural Language Processing are often used interchangeably in everyday conversation, even though each of them actually answers a different question. This confusion frequently makes discussions about AI among academics less precise than they should be.

2.1 The Fundamental Difference Between Architecture and Model

Before turning to more specific terms, one fundamental distinction needs to be understood first: the difference between an architecture and a model. An architecture is the blueprint or mathematical structure of a system, for example a Transformer or a CNN, which on its own cannot do anything yet. Training is the process by which that architecture learns patterns from large volumes of data. A model is the end result of an architecture that has gone through training, and is therefore ready to receive input and produce output.

A simple analogy helps. The architecture is like the empty brain of a newborn: the basic structure is there, but it holds no knowledge yet. Training is like years of learning. The model is the “adult” that results from that learning. This basic understanding matters because much of the confusion around AI terminology actually stems from mixing talk about architecture (the structure) with talk about models (the finished product).

With this foundation, the remaining AI terms can be understood through several different perspectives that complement one another, rather than stacking into a single linear hierarchy.

2.2 First Perspective: Broad Approaches in Artificial Intelligence

The first perspective answers a fundamental question: philosophically, what approach was this AI system built on. Several broad approaches are recognised in the history of AI.

• Symbolic AI or Rule Based AI (often called an Expert System): builds systems from explicit “if then” rules formulated by humans, with no learning from data. Examples include older medical diagnosis systems or script-based chatbots whose answers are predetermined.
• Search and Optimization Based AI: classical search or optimisation algorithms, such as older chess AI using minimax, or GPS navigation systems finding the fastest route.
• Fuzzy Logic Systems: reasoning systems that use fuzzy logic rather than purely binary true-or-false logic.
• Evolutionary or Genetic Algorithms: optimisation techniques inspired by biological evolution.
• Machine Learning: systems that learn patterns from data automatically rather than being explicitly programmed by humans. This is the main focus of the present paper, and is unpacked further in the third and fourth perspectives below.

2.3 Second Perspective: The Domains a Machine Understands

The second perspective answers an entirely different question from the first. It is not about how the machine is built, but about what the machine is actually trying to understand about the world around it. Four main domains are usually discussed, and it is important to stress that all four sit side by side rather than nesting inside one another.

• Vision: the ability to understand images or visual input, technically known as Computer Vision.
• Language: the ability to understand human language, technically known as Natural Language Processing and currently dominated by LLM technology.
• Audio or Speech Processing: the ability to understand and produce sound. This domain should be recognised as a branch in its own right, on par with Vision and Language rather than a subset of either, even though modern audio is now largely processed with the same architecture used for Language.
• Reasoning: the ability to reason and make decisions, usually achieved through a combination of techniques such as planning, Reinforcement Learning, and various Deep Learning architectures.

The Reasoning domain warrants particular attention because it overlaps most often with the other perspectives. Unlike Vision, Language, and Audio, whose boundaries are relatively clear as types of data being processed, reasoning ability does not usually stand alone as a data type. It emerges instead from a combination of the techniques discussed in the third and fourth perspectives.

2.4 Third Perspective: Architectures Within Deep Learning

The third perspective goes deeper into the Machine Learning branch mentioned in the first perspective, answering the question: what does the structure or “brain” of the model look like. Within Machine Learning there are two broad architectural groups. The first is Classical Machine Learning, conventional statistical algorithms that do not use many-layered neural networks, such as Decision Trees, Random Forests, Support Vector Machines, Naive Bayes, k Nearest Neighbour, and linear or logistic regression. The second is Deep Learning, machine learning that uses artificial neural networks with many layers.

It is important to understand that architectures within Deep Learning did not emerge in a tidy sequence matching the domains they serve today. The ancestor of all artificial neural networks, the Perceptron, was introduced back in 1958 as a general foundation for simple pattern classification. RNNs, designed specifically for sequential data such as language, speech, and time series, developed from the early 1980s and were later refined into LSTM in 1997 to address the “forgetting” problem of early RNNs. CNNs, designed for the Vision domain, reached their successful form in the late 1990s through the LeNet architecture for image and handwriting recognition.

Interestingly, GANs, generative architectures based on two competing networks, appeared in 2014, and the basic concept of Diffusion Models, now the mainstay of new image and video generation, actually emerged as early as 2015. Both were born before the Transformer, which was only introduced in 2017 through the Self Attention mechanism. Even so, the versions of Diffusion Models that became genuinely popular and surpassed GANs in image quality only appeared around 2020 to 2022, long after the Transformer had already come to dominate language processing. In other words, one must distinguish between when an architectural concept was first born and when a version of that architecture became genuinely popular or dominant.

The Transformer itself was originally designed for the Language domain, but because it is highly scalable, meaning it can keep growing larger and smarter as data and compute increase, the architecture was subsequently extended and adapted to the Vision and Audio domains as well. The Transformer is not a wholesale replacement for earlier architectures. CNNs, RNNs, and GANs remain in use for specific cases today, for example CNNs still commonly used for object detection on surveillance cameras.

It must also be stressed that an LLM is not a standalone architectural category. It is the result of the Transformer architecture trained on text at massive scale. In other words, the Transformer is the architecture, while the LLM is the model, consistent with the architecture-versus-model distinction explained earlier.

2.5 Fourth Perspective: How Models Learn and What They Are Used For

The fourth perspective differs from the third and applies across both Classical Machine Learning and Deep Learning. It answers two things at once: how the model is trained, and what the model is used for.

On the learning side, several training paradigms are recognised. Supervised Learning is learning from labelled data. Unsupervised Learning is discovering patterns with no labels at all. Semi Supervised Learning mixes labelled and unlabelled data. Reinforcement Learning is learning through reward and penalty mechanisms, and this is the paradigm more recently used specifically to align language model answers with human preferences.

On the purpose side, models can be distinguished by two capabilities. The Generative capability is the ability to produce new content, and this is the basis of the popular term Generative AI, covering tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Gemini. The Discriminative capability is the ability to classify or predict based on existing data rather than creating something new.

The key point to underline is that the Generative capability is a purpose of use, not one particular architecture. The term Generative AI can therefore be achieved by any of the architectures discussed in the third perspective: LLMs for text, Diffusion Models and GANs for images, audio, and video, or combinations of both in multimodal models. Generative AI is thus not a sole derivative of LLMs, and LLMs themselves can in fact also be used for non-generative tasks, such as sentiment classification in a text.

2.6 From Architecture to Ready-to-Use Models

Following the architecture-versus-model distinction set out earlier, several popular terms academics often hear are actually names of finished models, not names of architectures. An LLM is a language model produced by training the Transformer architecture at massive scale. A Reasoning Model is an LLM given additional training, usually through Reinforcement Learning, so that it can “think” step by step before giving a final answer, often described as a chain of reasoning. ASR or Automatic Speech Recognition converts speech into text, while TTS or Text to Speech converts text into natural-sounding speech; both are models in the Audio domain.

When Vision, Language, Audio, and Reasoning capabilities are combined into one and the same model, the result is called an LMM or Large Multimodal Model, also frequently called a Foundation Model in industry terms: a large, general-purpose model that can be further adapted for a variety of downstream tasks. The most recent development beyond multimodal capability is Agentic AI or AI Agents: models that do not merely answer questions but can plan steps, use tools such as web browsers, calculators, or program code, and act towards a goal semi-autonomously.

2.7 Process Stages: Training, Post-training, Inference, Prompt, and RAG

These five terms are often confused by academics because they all appear to relate to how a model works, when in fact each occurs at a different stage and a different time.

Training, or more precisely pre-training, is the initial stage. It happens once at the beginning, before the model is released, and is extremely expensive and time-consuming, potentially taking months. At this stage the model's weights or parameters are formed from scratch using raw data at massive scale. This stage is analogous to years of schooling, from primary education to university, that shape a person's general knowledge.

Post-training occurs after pre-training and before public release, and is shorter and more focused. Here the model's weights are readjusted rather than formed from scratch, through techniques such as fine-tuning, RLHF or Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, and instruction-tuning, which shape answer style, instruction-following, and safety behaviour. This stage is analogous to job training or an internship after graduation, sharpening professional conduct.

Inference occurs every time the model is used to answer, happening live at each use. At this stage no model weights change at all; the model simply computes an output from the given input, purely using what it has already learned. This stage is analogous to a graduate answering job interview questions rather than studying again.

A Prompt is part of the inference process: the specific input typed by the user, which the model then reads and processes on the spot. RAG or Retrieval-Augmented Generation is a technique for connecting the model to external data sources such as a database or the internet, applied just before or during inference. In RAG, the user's prompt is “injected” with additional context from external sources before the model processes it, yet the model's weights still do not change at all. RAG is analogous to someone being allowed to consult references or the internet moments before answering a question.

Key point: training and post-training change the model itself, that is, its weights or parameters, and both occur only before the model is used by users. By contrast, prompts, RAG, and inference happen every time the model is used and do not change the model itself at all. Once a conversation ends, the model “forgets” its entire contents unless a separate memory system has been built outside the model. In other words, RAG is not a way of retraining a model; it is a way of enriching what the model sees at one particular moment of inference.

2.8 Model Limitations: Hallucination, Confidence, and Calibration

Besides understanding how models work, academics also need to understand the fundamental limitations inherent in today's language models. Parameters are the weights produced by training that store the model's knowledge, and their count, which can reach billions or trillions, is often used as a rough indicator of a model's size. The Context Window is the model's short-term memory capacity within a single conversation, measured in tokens.

Hallucination is the phenomenon in which a model produces information that sounds convincing but is in fact wrong or ungrounded in real data. The main root cause is that the Confidence Score, the statistical value produced as the model selects each next word, is purely a linguistic probability rather than a measure of factual truth. In other words, a model can answer in a highly confident tone while being wrong, because by default the model does not “know that it does not know”.

Related to this is Calibration: how well a model's statistical confidence aligns with its actual real-world accuracy. Poorly calibrated models tend to be “confident” about answers that are in fact wrong. Uncertainty Quantification is the research field working to make models capable of measuring and communicating how uncertain they are about an answer. Alignment is the broader research field concerned with keeping a model's goals and behaviour consistent with human interests and safety, an area that grows more critical as models advance towards greater capability.

Understanding these limitations matters for academics because it connects directly to the academic integrity and assessment challenges discussed in the next section, particularly the risk of over-trusting AI answers without further verification.

2.9 Towards Multimodal Systems, Agentic AI, and the AGI Horizon

Current AI development is moving towards the merging of domains that were previously separate. Vision models, Language models, and Audio models used to be built separately as three parallel branches. Today they are increasingly combined into a single multimodal model capable of seeing, reading, hearing, speaking, and reasoning at once. Even the modern Audio domain is now largely processed using architectures similar to those used for Language, so its boundary with other domains grows ever thinner.

Agentic AI is the layer of development that follows multimodal capability, where the model does not merely answer but uses its multimodal and reasoning abilities to plan and execute real tasks, for example writing and running program code or conducting staged research independently. This development is often regarded as a concrete step towards Artificial General Intelligence or AGI: machine intelligence on par with humans across nearly all cognitive fields. As a hypothetical stage beyond AGI, the term Artificial Super Intelligence or ASI refers to a condition in which machine intelligence surpasses humans in all fields.

It must be stressed that AGI has not been achieved to date, and ASI is a purely theoretical and still speculative concept, with no scientific consensus on when, or even whether, such a condition will be reached. AGI itself is not a single product but a combination of capabilities: vision, language, reasoning, the ability to act autonomously, and the ability to generalise across domains without retraining for each new task. Most of today's most advanced AI systems, including multimodal models and Agentic AI, remain highly capable at many specific tasks yet fall short of human-level generalisation across all fields.

As an illustration of how these perspectives and terms complement one another, take ChatGPT. From the first perspective, ChatGPT belongs to Machine Learning. From the second, its main domain is Language, extended towards Reasoning. From the third, its architecture is Transformer-based Deep Learning. From the fourth, it is trained through a combination of Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning, and used for Generative tasks. As a finished model, ChatGPT is an instance of an LLM that has gone through both pre-training and post-training, and each time it is used to answer a question, what is happening is inference over the user's prompt, not new learning.

As an additional note, NLP does not appear as a separate point in this framework, because NLP is essentially another name for the Language domain discussed in the second perspective. NLP itself has existed since the Symbolic AI era through rule-based parsers, then developed through statistical approaches in the classical Machine Learning era, and is now dominated by LLMs in the current Deep Learning era.

3. Levels of Generative AI Adoption Among Academics

Having positioned these technical terms, the next relevant question for the theme of uplevelling is what the levels of generative AI adoption actually look like for academics. AI use does not stop at a single level; it has clear tiers, each with different benefits, strengths, and weaknesses.

Level 1: Basic Prompting

Simple trial-and-error question and answer, for example asking AI to summarise an article. At this level academics get fast answers, instant summaries, and initial ideas for writing or teaching materials. Strengths: requires no technical expertise and can be used immediately to save time on light tasks. Weaknesses: results are often generic and shallow, so users may unknowingly accept wrong answers, since output quality depends heavily on luck in how the question was asked.

Level 2: Prompt Engineering

Designing instructions systematically with attention to role, format, examples, and step-by-step reasoning, so that output becomes more precise and consistent. Academics obtain far more directed output, such as article drafts in a particular writing style, exam questions at a specific difficulty level, or essay feedback in a consistent format. Strengths: results become more reliable and replicable, saving repeated revision time. Weaknesses: it takes time to learn good prompting technique, and factual accuracy is still not fully guaranteed, since errors are only reduced, not eliminated.

Level 3: Context and Retrieval Augmented Use (RAG)

Giving the AI documents or external data as additional context, for example uploading reference papers so the AI answers based on those documents. Academics obtain answers grounded in sources they genuinely own or have chosen themselves rather than the model's built-in general knowledge, making it suitable for literature reviews or analysis of one's own documents. Strengths: accuracy improves significantly because answers rest on real data, hallucination risk drops considerably, and sources are more traceable. Weaknesses: results are only as good as the documents supplied, so care is needed to protect the confidentiality of any data or documents uploaded.

Level 4: Tool Use or Function Calling

The AI's ability to call other tools such as calculators, web search engines, or API services, extending its capability beyond text processing alone. The AI can search for current data online, compute statistics accurately, or retrieve data from external databases rather than inventing answers from the model's memory. Strengths: the AI's reach extends beyond its static knowledge, so results are more current and more verifiable. Weaknesses: dependence emerges on the quality and reliability of the external tools called, and initial configuration tends to be more technical.

Level 5: Agentic AI

The AI's ability to plan and execute multi-step tasks independently, breaking a large goal into sub-tasks, executing them, and then evaluating its own results. Academics can delegate complex work, for example producing a research report draft from raw data through to completion, without guiding every step manually. Strengths: productivity rises sharply on layered tasks, greatly assisting repetitive research and academic administration work. Weaknesses: there is a risk of losing control of the process because the AI makes its own decisions along the way, so extra oversight and verification are needed given that errors can compound across the task chain.

Level 6: Customization or Fine Tuning

The most advanced level: retraining or adapting a model to an institution's specific data and needs. Academics or institutions obtain a model that genuinely understands local context, such as a campus's distinctive writing style, field-specific terminology, or internal institutional policy. Strengths: results are the most relevant and consistent with institutional needs, making this a long-term asset. Weaknesses: cost and technical complexity are high, requiring a dedicated team and infrastructure, making it unrealistic for individual academics without institutional support.

In general, the higher the level, the greater the benefit obtained, but also the greater the technical literacy required and the risk to be managed. Novice lecturers essentially need proficiency at levels one and two, while more advanced lecturers or researchers can be encouraged towards levels three to five, whereas level six is more realistically pursued as an institutional initiative rather than an individual responsibility.

4. Where Most Academics Currently Stand

Having mapped the AI hierarchy and the levels of generative AI adoption, the next important question is where, realistically, most lecturers or academics currently sit. Answering this matters so that the competence-building strategy in the following section is not designed for a level that few people actually occupy.

The reality is varied. Some academics remain at level zero, meaning they do not use AI at all, whether because they have not been exposed to the technology, have ethical reservations, or avoid it entirely without exploring its potential. Most other academics sit at levels one to two, using simple question and answer for light administrative needs such as letter drafts or reading summaries, without composing prompts systematically.

Faculty attitudes towards AI are not uniform either. Some lecturers are optimistic and eager to experiment, others are critical and cautious, some are critically reflective, continuing to use AI while evaluating its impact, and others are neutral because they have not formed a firm position. This diversity of attitudes means competence-building cannot be approached identically for every faculty profile.

Level three and above, covering RAG, Tool Use, and Agentic use, remains minority territory, typically occupied by lecturers in technology-adjacent fields such as informatics and data science, or by individuals exploring independently outside any institutional push. Level six, Fine Tuning or Customization, is almost never in individual academics' hands, because it emerges only as an institutional project, such as developing a campus-specific model, rather than something a lecturer does alone.

Another visible gap lies between student perception and faculty reality. A growing number of students rate their lecturers as reasonably ready to use AI, yet overall the share of lecturers who genuinely feel confident remains below half. This reality underlines that the main focus of competence-building programmes should be shifting the majority of academics solidly from levels zero and one to levels two and three, rather than rushing everyone towards level five. The AI literacy gap is also not merely a matter of willingness; it is a matter of systemic readiness, namely training, institutional support, and the time available to lecturers amid an already crowded Tridharma workload.

5. Challenges of AI Adoption for Academics

The challenges of AI adoption can be unpacked concretely across the six domains of academic activity, before closing with systemic cross-domain challenges.

• Learning: the learning curve of new technology adds load amid an already crowded Tridharma workload, alongside the risk of deskilling from over-reliance on AI, which can erode critical thinking and independent writing.
• Teaching: teaching materials can become outdated faster given the pace of AI development, requiring lecturers to keep updating their knowledge, alongside difficulty distinguishing authentic student understanding from work excessively assisted by AI in class.
• Assignments: difficulty designing tasks resistant to AI misuse, for example essays a chatbot could complete entirely, alongside ambiguity over how much student AI use counts as reasonable and how much counts as cheating.
• Assessment: AI detection tools are not yet fully reliable, prone both to false accusations and to undetected passes, alongside the need to overhaul grading rubrics to remain fair amid this uncertainty.
• Research: risks to research integrity, since data or analysis produced or assisted by AI requires methodological transparency that is not yet standard practice in many journals, alongside reliance on AI for literature reviews that risks missing nuances or important sources invisible to the model.
• Community service: gaps in AI access between academics or institutions and the target communities, particularly in areas with limited digital infrastructure, alongside the risk of AI-based solutions designed without regard for the local context of the communities served.

Beyond these six domains lie systemic cross-domain challenges. The literacy gap is the first, consistent with the reality set out earlier, where most academics remain at levels zero and one and are therefore not ready to meet demands across all six domains at once. Policy lag is the second, as institutional guidance on AI across these six domains still trails the adoption speed of students and society. Resource constraints are the third, as institutions want to be innovative while training budgets and infrastructure often remain limited.

6. Opportunities of AI for Academics

As with challenges, the opportunities AI offers can also be unpacked domain by domain, so that this paper presents a balanced picture rather than a list of threats alone.

• Learning: access to a personal tutor available around the clock for understanding new fields or closing digital competence gaps, plus rapid summarisation of literature or complex topics as a starting point before independent deep study.
• Teaching: personalisation of teaching materials to the varied needs and comprehension levels of students, plus the ability to simulate teaching scenarios or generate practice question variants quickly.
• Assignments: the chance to design more creative and personal tasks, for example based on dynamic case studies, that actually use AI as part of the student learning process rather than treating it purely as something forbidden, plus AI's ability to give preliminary feedback on student drafts before the lecturer grades them.
• Assessment: faster marking of large-scale work such as quizzes and short essays, freeing more lecturer time for qualitative feedback, plus greater rubric consistency across classes or large cohorts.
• Research: acceleration of literature reviews, data synthesis, and initial article drafting, plus the ability to analyse quantitative and qualitative data at a scale that previously took far longer.
• Community service: AI assistance in translating or simplifying educational material so it is more accessible to the general public, plus the ability to analyse community needs from data to design better-targeted outreach programmes.

Beyond these six domains lie overarching cross-domain opportunities. Work efficiency is the first, because time saved in one domain, for example assessment, can be redirected to domains requiring a deeper human touch, for example personal student mentoring. Equity of access is the second, because lecturers at resource-constrained institutions are also helped to carry out the Tridharma more equitably. As a concrete example, a number of universities have run AI literacy training programmes that successfully moved faculty from anxious to confident in using AI across these domains.

7. A Strategy for Building Academic Competence

Given the reality that most academics remain at levels zero to one, and the domain-by-domain challenges and opportunities set out above, a competence-building strategy needs to be designed gradually and realistically rather than demanding immediate mastery at the highest level.

7.1 Strategy Based on Adoption Levels

• Foundation stage targets the shift from levels zero and one to level two, through basic prompting training that is mandatory and easily accessible to all lecturers with no technical prerequisites, with the simple aim of ensuring no academic remains truly at level zero.
• Strengthening stage targets the shift from level two to level three, through more structured prompting training plus an introduction to RAG, that is, uploading one's own documents or data into AI systems, which suits both research needs and teaching material preparation.
• Advanced stage is optional, targeting the shift from level three to levels four and five, aimed at lecturers or researchers with deeper interest, through an introduction to Tool Use and Agentic AI for layered administrative and research tasks. It is not mandatory for everyone but available as an advanced development track.
• Institutional stage targets level six, Fine Tuning or model customisation, which remains the domain of institutional projects such as campus IT units or learning innovation centres rather than an individual lecturer's responsibility.

This staged approach also addresses the diversity of faculty attitudes described earlier, without forcing a single identical path on every profile.

7.2 Strategy Based on the Six Tridharma Domains

• Learning: provide short, self-paced AI literacy modules so lecturers can learn at their own speed without adding to schedule pressure.
• Teaching: encourage communities of practice for sharing AI-based teaching materials among lecturers in related fields, so that not everyone has to start from scratch alone.
• Assignments: design clear institutional guidance on the reasonable limits of student AI use, as a shared reference for lecturers.
• Assessment: provide dedicated training on the limitations of AI detection tools, so lecturers neither falsely accuse students nor place uncritical trust in those tools.
• Research: encourage methodological transparency, for example disclosing AI use in the methods section, as a new norm rather than something hidden or treated as taboo.
• Community service: train lecturers to design AI-based solutions that account for the context and access limitations of the communities served.

7.3 Systemic Strategy at the Institutional Level

The third strategy is systemic, covering prerequisites at the institutional and policy level. Curriculum and assessment policies need updating to govern AI use explicitly. Official time also needs to be allocated for lecturers to attend training, rather than relying on personal time amid an already heavy workload. No less important, a new mindset is needed as a cultural foundation: seeing AI as a learning partner rather than a threat or a mere tool, in line with the spirit of learning with the learning machine that is the central theme of this paper.

8. Conclusion

The success of AI adoption in academia ultimately depends on human readiness, not on the sophistication of the technology alone. The challenges academics face across the six Tridharma domains are real, from academic integrity issues to institutional resource constraints. Yet the opportunities AI offers are equally real, from work efficiency to equity of access.

Reality shows that most academics currently sit at the most basic level of adoption. The most realistic competence-building strategy is therefore not to push everyone towards the highest level as quickly as possible, but to ensure a solid shift from basic to intermediate levels, supported systemically by institutions through policy, time, and adequate training.

As recommendations: individual lecturers need to build AI literacy independently and incrementally; institutions need to allocate training budgets and revise relevant academic policies; and policymakers at the broader level need to develop a regulatory framework that supports innovation while protecting academic integrity. With this gradual, realistic approach, academics can genuinely learn with the learning machine rather than fall behind or lose direction amid the rapid change that artificial intelligence brings.

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