By: Melanie Seepersad | Published: March 3rd, 2026
Artificial Intelligence, more commonly known as AI, is spreading fast throughout the world. According to Exploding Topics, more than 1.1 billion people are expected to use AI by 2031 and almost 78% of companies have already introduced it into their operations.
Two of Kean University’s students, one majoring in computer science and the other majoring in journalism, anonymously spoke about the pros and cons of AI as well as their own personal usage of it.
The computer science major believes AI can help him earn his degree “given that it’s inevitably linked to the future” and the journalism major uses AI as an editor to clean up his work. Forbes states that 90% of college students have used AI. For students, AI can be used for summarizing articles, proofreading essays, brainstorming, revising texts, and even studying for exams.
The journalism student explained that “I might use it in different ways depending on the class. I may use it to summarize an article I don’t want to read or to check for spelling and grammatical errors if I’m writing a paper or a story.”
The computer science student agreed and added on, “AI helps me with my homework and studying for exams, summarizing texts or keywords that are important to learn.”
However, AI could also be used in more nuanced ways that are unique to a student’s major. The computer science student explained that AI helps with coding and debugging programs, as well as building applications, tasks not typically assigned to a journalism major.
“Computer science majors literally created AI, but it is so advanced now that it can create programs faster than human programmers,” the computer science student said. “Personally, I am not the best at coding, and I use AI from time to time to help me with codes, but I feel like once I get the hang of it, I won’t have to rely on AI to help me code and debug.”
On the contrary, the journalism major does not use his AI for the specifics of his major to the extent the computer science major does.
“I may use AI for my major, but it is not used to do my work for me,” the journalism major said, “I mainly use it to proofread and fix any grammar errors. But I have never used it to write my papers or to interview people for me. It would not be accurate for AI to record and interview people, and it would not be ethical on my part if I used AI to interview people.”
AI taking over jobs in the future has become a controversial topic in recent years. Some are very concerned about AI taking daily job positions such as clerks, customer service representatives, and manufacturing/warehouse workers, among others. This can put many people’s jobs at risk in the future. The two students have different levels of anxiety when it comes to this.
“Who would feel comfortable talking to an artificial intelligence bot during an interview? AI can’t interview someone for you, which I have to do almost every day in my future work as a sportswriter,” the journalist said. “Also, AI isn’t always accurate, so why should journalists be so trusting about the information and research that we are getting from the interviewee to write their stories? They are trusting us writers to write and tell their stories, and that is definitely something AI could never do.”
For the computer science major, however, the presence of AI was a cause of worry.
“AI is already taking over my future job,” the computer science major said, “it can already do coding and debugging codes, and the fact that it can build programs faster than an experienced human programmer is very concerning.”
The computer science major elaborated.
“It is more worrisome for me because when I first started in the computer science field, AI was not used as much as it is now. AI is being used so often now that they even have AI-created music, like it’s already taking over singers’ jobs,” the computer science major said, “so, yeah, I am a bit worried about AI taking over my future job, but I also think that it will take a couple more years or maybe decades for that to happen. It is at a lower-level skill level, so I have some faith that it won’t completely take over software development.”
Nonetheless, AI taking over future careers is not a make-or-break situation. Many students are reliant on AI when it comes to their schoolwork, but every student uses AI in different ways. In a world where college degrees increasingly depend on AI, students may find themselves in a battle with that same technology when they enter the workforce several years later.
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