Use and Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Philippine Higher Education: Reflections from Instructors and Administrators

Abstract

This column shows that Filipino instructors and administrators collectively acknowledge AI as a transformative tool with the potential to enhance teaching, streamline administrative tasks, and boost research productivity. They highlight AI’s benefits in facilitating learning with specific examples, but recognize its limitations, particularly in contextualizing experiences. While they positively regard AI tools at work, they have some concerns such as cheating, data fabrication, and potential decline in creativity and critical thinking. Hence, they emphasize the necessity of regulatory policies and ethical guidelines governing AI use in higher education. They also report whether their home institutions have created AI policies. This column advocates for Philippine educational institutions to reassess their stance on AI’s increasing presence.

Keywords:

• Artificial intelligence
• artificial intelligence in education
• ChatGPT
• higher education
• Philippines

Acknowledgment

No funding was received in the conduct of this study.

Author contributions

Louie Giray conceived the column, spearheaded the writing project, and edited the manuscript. Other authors participated in the design of the manuscript and contributed to report writing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).