{"id":201466,"date":"2026-04-02T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/despite-skepticism-widespread-ai-use-at-cal-state\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:10:23","slug":"despite-skepticism-widespread-ai-use-at-cal-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/despite-skepticism-widespread-ai-use-at-cal-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Skepticism, Widespread AI Use at Cal State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/02\/despite-skepticism-widespread-ai-use-cal\">Despite Skepticism, Widespread AI Use at Cal State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/02\/despite-skepticism-widespread-ai-use-cal\">https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/02\/despite-skepticism-widespread-ai-use-cal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 03:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.insidehighered.com\">www.insidehighered.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The California State University (CSU) system has seen widespread adoption of AI tools among its students, faculty, and staff despite some skepticism.<\/li>\n<li>ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool, with over 80% of students, 87% of faculty, and 89% of staff ranking it as their most used tool.<\/li>\n<li>The CSU system invested millions in a plan to grow the AI-ready workforce and has partnered with OpenAI to provide free access to their education-specific version of ChatGPT.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of respondents in the CSU survey (95%) have used at least one of the listed 21 AI tools.<\/li>\n<li>There is mixed sentiment among faculty on AI\u2019s place in the classroom, with 22% discouraging its use, and 19% encouraging it.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty are the most critical of AI\u2019s impact on education, split almost evenly on whether it has had a positive or negative effect on their teaching.<\/li>\n<li>The survey results suggest there is widespread pressure to use AI due to concerns about the future job market, with the majority believing it will be essential for most professions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Skepticism, Widespread AI Use at Cal State https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/02\/despite-skepticism-widespread-ai-use-cal Publish Date: 2026-04-02 03:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/2025-02\/CSU_AI_partnership.jpg?itok=0lEWwSYw","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201468,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201466\/revisions\/201468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}