IDEAs Rewired #4: Can students use GenAI?

By now, most universities across the UK have implemented guidance on AI usage. But do students actually know what it says?

This week, Jay DesLauriers, a Teaching Fellow and an AI Futurist in Education at Imperial, and Heather Mack, Director of Strategy and Operations at the IDEA Lab, join Lok Yee Liu to dissect current and future guidance around AI in higher education. Plus, Jay and Heather use Imperial Business School’s traffic light system to challenge students’ perceptions of when they can and can’t use generative AI.

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Episode links:

• For staff and students at Imperial, the university’s AI Principles, Generative AI guidance and Generative AI and Study Guidance Hub.
• JISC’s Student perceptions of AI 2025
• HEPI’s Student Generative AI Survey 2025
• The Digital Education Council’s The Next Era of Assessment: A Global Review of AI in Assessment Design