Get the job done – or learn?

What happens to our ideas and our voice when we let AI help us write? Researcher Baraa Khuder has followed how students and researchers use generative AI – and observed that new insights only emerge when AI is combined with real colleagues. Those who skip human feedback in the process learn less, feel more dissatisfied, and generate fewer original ideas.

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Researcher Baraa Khuder on how AI shapes writing and learning – and what her experiences from Aleppo in Syria have meant for her research.

Researcher Baraa Khuder on how AI shapes writing and learning – and what her experiences from Aleppo in Syria have meant for her research.

At the same time, Baraa Khuder argues that the technology can make academia more accessible for students and researchers who do not have English as their mother tongue.
In Verapodden she explains what happens to language in AI-generated texts, and how her perspective on knowledge and learning has been shaped by fleeing from a university in one of the world's most dangerous cities.
She also discusses how feedback can be crucial for researchers in exile – sometimes the difference between continuing and giving up.

Listen: Get the job done or learn – when we use AI? (Opens in new tab)

About Verapodden

In Chalmers Verapodd you will hear personal conversations with researchers, students, teachers and alumni. What are their experiences, driving forces and visions? What will become of the knowledge from Chalmers?

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Project leaders: Cecilia Hillman & Maria Saline, Genie
Original music by Stefan Karlsson
Programme manager, technology & editing: Malin Avenius
Producer: Anne-Christine Nordin
Art Director: Carina Schultz

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Baraa Khuder

  • Senior Lecturer, Language and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Learning in Science
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