Senior High School Students’ Research Writing Skills in Relation to Artificial Intelligence Dependence

Artificial Intelligence is emerging as a powerful tool in modern era. This offers ideas, assistance, and convenience in various fields. Students are taking advantage of AI. They use it in doing school projects, presentations, and even research papers. Nevertheless, over-reliance on AI can lead to some drawbacks. This study aimed to correlate the students’ level of dependence on AI and their research writing skills. This also sought to know their perceptions regarding this topic. This research applied mixed methods: 100 respondents answered sets of Likert Scale Survey and four open-ended questions. It was found out that the level of dependence on AI does not significantly affect the students’ research writing skills. Students describe themselves as competent in research writing and do not heavily rely on AI. They use AI as assistance for generating ideas, proofreading, and improving their research paper in terms of grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Though they acknowledge its benefits, they also identify its disadvantages. Lower critical thinking skills, reduced learning, and questionable academic integrity of their outputs can be brought by misuse of AI.