“Men are taking up this stuff faster than we are,” Ingram said. “A study at the end of the year showed that 56% of men were taking up AI versus 35% of women, and while those numbers will have increased by now, there is still certainly a gap. There are also studies showing that women are more likely to consider using AI to be cheating.

“I’m going to tell you now: AI is not cheating. Even if it is, everybody’s already using it. It’s a bit like using Wikipedia to write your homework. Everyone’s got access to that stuff now, so everyone’s using that to better their work. To ignore it completely is dangerous. We’ve all got access to stuff now, either cheaply or freely, and it’s really powerful and can be really beneficial.”

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