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A lot of universities try to cope with AI by "implementing" it into the "tool set" of students. I guess everyone just tries to be progressive or thinks it is easier to just let students use AI instead of banning it.

I don't think it has to do with being progressive or whatnot. It's a simple fact that AI is here to stay and that in real life (i.e. on your white collar job), you'll be using it for all kinds of tasks.
So, why ban it for students? If anything, it better prepares students for wageslaving and it makes their papers more readable.

By the way: you can't just tell AI to write a research report on a grad school level. While LLMs are great for searching existing information and writing concise text, it won't help you to come up with original research ideas or actually do research (in the sense of gathering new data) for you. Nevermind the tendency to hallucinate sources; so you'll have to be really careful.

I guess for high schoolers and some undergrad students it will make life easier. Because on that level of academic education you're supposed to learn from and recompile already existing information.

Still, I'm of the opinion that AI - at least currently - won't be able to do the work for you. It simply makes it easier (brain storming, supporting literature reviews, proof reading, etc.).