Kadin Yeager

Chinook Contributor 

Students at Casper College are currently using artificial intelligence platforms, more commonly known as A.I., to help with their coursework. There are positive and negative reactions about A.I. and how it is being used on campus. 

Cambridge Dictionary in 2025 states that artificial intelligence is a computer software system that has some of the qualities that a human brain has and can solve problems, interpret languages, and create images and videos.

ChatGPT is the most used A.I. platform with about 400 million users, according to Shubham Singh of the DemandSage and Backlinko in 2025. DemandSage also reported that usage increased by 33% since December of 2024, marking the platform’s fastest growth yet.

As the use of A.I. rises, so does the use of A.I. detectors. The most common detector used on campus is Turnitin. The software is a plagiarism analysis that detects if any A.I. was used to write a paper. After the analysis, it would show a score of how much A.I. was used and could show not only the teacher, but the student the score as well.  

Renee Griffith, director of teaching, learning, and assessment at CC, taught some technological classes on campus, and since 2023 she’s taught students and staff about A.I. and how it should be properly used in an academic setting. 

Griffith decided to teach more about A.I. to everyone after attending a seminar, hosted by A.J. Juliani, where he talked about having less fear about the tool and how it can be used productively to help students with whatever they may need help.

When using A.I. with her students, they seemed to like the idea of working with it in her classes.

“They were nervous at first,” said Griffith. “After they tried it, used it, and applied it, they had more confidence,” Griffith also said.

Griffith sees herself retired in the next ten years but wants to keep teaching about A.I. to others and how one can become better at using it.

“I hope to keep learning. I don’t just want to retire and then not learn anymore. I would love to take some courses,” said Griffith.

Griffith also wants to help her grandkids stay on top of A.I. technology.

“I think it’s really important to know what it is and how they’re using it to guide them through some of the decisions that they have to make,” said Griffith.

Keenan Morgan and Martina Stowe, both secondary education majors at CC, shared different opinions about the use of A.I. in schools.

Morgan doesn’t like the idea of the use of A.I. because of the implications in the pace of development.

“Generally, people who know me know that I’m anti A.I. in terms of the pace of development. That stuff concerns me because I think it has wide implications not just for schools, but politics and what people believe to be true and not to be true,” Morgan said.  

Morgan works at the Writing Center on campus and noticed more and more students ask how to properly use A.I. to help it with their work.

“I think we’ve noticed more questions about A.I. or more discussions about A.I. and its appropriateness of it being used,” Morgan said.

Stowe took several  technological classes from Griffith and learned how to use A.I. and how to properly use it as a tool.

“When she taught A.I., it was for how educators can use it in the classroom, and her entire concept was using it as a tool but not using it as something that takes over fully,” Stowe said.

Stowe used A.I. platforms in a few of Griffith’s classes and also learned how to use A.I. to create a lesson that revolves around the content they were learning. 

“We used it in one of our lessons to create an entire lesson with it. We just said this is like the standard we need to follow and then it created it for the rest of us, it would even come up with videos to show.” Stowe said.

With continued advancement, the usage of A.I. may become the tool of the future if students are traiined to use the software systems properly. Only time will tell.