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    Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have emerged as a
growing resource in educational settings. This expansion has
occurred amid varying acceptance and trust in digital learning
technologies across student populations, with most reporting that
their instructors or schools had not yet provided guidelines for
ethical or responsible AI tool use.  

    Benefits of AI chatbots in educational settings extend to
both students and educators. These systems can support learning
by providing detailed explanations of concepts through intelligent
tutoring support. Beyond explanations, they can offer immediate
feedback on students’ work, allowing for more rapid
improvement and iterative learning. These systems have
demonstrated their potential to support personalized learning,
adapting to individual student needs. Personalization naturally
fosters higher levels of student engagement, found to be another
benefit of these systems. Studies have also highlighted AI’s
potential to stimulate creativity through idea generation, bridge
language barriers via content translation for multilingual learners,
and democratize education by providing continuous access to
educational support and resources regardless of time or
geographical constraints. 

    Besides their promise, implementing AI chatbots in
educational settings requires careful consideration of several
risks. For students, academic integrity has been raised as a
primary concern, with studies highlighting the risks of intentional
and unintentional plagiarism. These tools may inadvertently
undermine students’ critical thinking development and academic
agency, potentially fostering an unhealthy overreliance on
automated assistance. The quality of interaction itself presents
additional challenges, as the reduction of peer-to-peer and
student-instructor interactions threatens to eliminate meaningful
learning relationships.