Students and AI: How Academic Information Is Being Turned Upside Down

Sciences Po and its library are part of the CIVICA European university alliance. As part of their joint work, the librarians asked IFOP to carry out a barometer assessing information skills among its 72,000 HSS students. The results paint a portrait of a generation facing unprecedented tensions in its relationship with academic information. In barely three years, generative artificial intelligence has established itself as an essential tool in research routines, profoundly disrupting an ecosystem already weakened by information overload, fragmented student time, and the multiplication of alternative sources.