Student perception of artificial intelligence in education

This study explores how first-semester Business Management Engineering students in Mexico perceive and use artificial intelligence in their daily academic lives. Researchers surveyed 31 students between August and December 2025 to understand what they really think about tools such as ChatGPT and similar programs. The results are quite revealing: students are very enthusiastic about the potential of AI to improve their learning and even their quality of life. Although they feel comfortable using these tools, they recognize that they are not as easy to use as they seem. Most interestingly, they show surprising maturity in identifying the risks: they know that they can become dependent on them, that they could affect their critical thinking, and that they facilitate plagiarism.