Challenges to Academic Integrity from New Tools - A Survey of Students' Perceptions and Behaviors of Employing ChatGPT

Abstract

In this study we look at business school students’ perceptions and behaviors concerning new artificial intelligence tools. These tools have the potential to change productivity in students’ academic endeavors, but also lead to cheating either through fabrication or withdrawing information of the source of the work. To explore the students’ perceptions and behaviors we used previous academic dishonesty questionnaires and augmented them with ChatGPT specific elements. Our results show that students approve usage of these tools in certain situations, but they are also concerned about the rampant use and its potential negative consequences for learning and skills gained during studies. We conclude that that technological advancements in the form of AI tools like ChatGPT have the potential to blur the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior from a student's perspective, and develop the Ethics-Frequency Spectrum Framework to visualize this.