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How Universities View AI Tools in 2026: Policies, Opportunities, and Concerns
The first wave of generative-AI enthusiasm that swept campuses in 2023 has settled into something more deliberate. Universities in 2026 no longer ask whether AI belongs in higher education; they ask how to weave it into mission-critical goals, teaching, research, and community impact without trading away academic integrity or student trust. Students still experiment with chatbots at 2 a.m. to finish lab write-ups, faculty still worry about vanishing skills, and administrators