When ChatGPT first launched, the University of Sydney was on the back foot, the instiution admits. Now it says it places digital technology at the forefront of its curriculums. It’s been a similar shift across the university sector, which has broadly pivoted to acknowledge generative AI in academic integrity policies and incorporate the new technology into learning and teaching. At the University of Melbourne, for instance, artificial intelligence is even being used to help mark assessments. This year, the University of Sydney was named AI university of the year at the inaugural Future Campus awards, a body established last year to bring news and analysis on the higher education sector.
