For students

Nobody here is going to pretend you’ve never pasted a question into a chatbot at 11pm. The useful conversation isn’t whether you use AI — it’s whether what you’re doing builds anything that survives to the exam.

Here’s the thing worth knowing early: the shortcut and the study tool are the same app. Ask it to write the essay and you’ve learned nothing and risked a lot. Ask it to explain why your proof falls apart at step three, then close it and redo the proof — that’s a tutor with infinite patience and no judgment, available at midnight. Same tool. Completely different outcome.

Start with how to use AI to study, honestly for the workflow. Using AI without cheating draws the line clearly, including the parts of it that are genuinely blurry. Test prep with AI covers the highest-leverage use there is — generating practice you then do unaided.

And read how to cite ChatGPT before you need it. Most students who get in trouble weren’t trying to cheat; they just never wrote down that they’d had help.