""I've had a lot of people go like 'oh but you have to use it'. But I have my reasons. I have concerns about the ethics of copyright, a lack of transparency from companies about how they're using the data, the environmental effects of AI tools and the accuracy of what genAI models spit out.""
""Coding is a skill I want to learn and develop, because it's not the thing I'm the most confident in. I would rather try and do it myself, learning from my mistakes.""
""A lot of people say 'it's the future, everyone is using it'. Not using it kind of feels like showing up to a function and saying you don't drink.""
Danielle Crowley, a marine zoologist at Bangor University, is one of the few PhD students in her cohort not using generative AI. She has observed colleagues utilizing these tools for coding and communication. Despite encouragement from peers and lecturers to adopt AI, Crowley has ethical concerns regarding copyright, data transparency, environmental impact, and accuracy. She believes using AI would hinder her learning process in coding, a skill she wishes to develop independently. The academic community is divided on the ethics of AI use, with many researchers embracing it for efficiency.
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