In Latin America, 92% of students are already using AI in their studies

A survey of 30,000 respondents at 29 Latin American institutions contradicts the idea of slower adoption outside of mainstream markets.

Conducted by the Digital Education Council with the Tecnológico de Monterrey and its Institute for the Future of Education, this regional survey collected more than 30,000 responses from 29 higher education institutions in Latin America. It challenges the hypothesis that the so-called peripheral markets are structurally lagging behind: 92% of students and 79% of teachers say they use AI, and 94% of teachers plan to use it in the future.

Concerns are mainly about the uses of others: 61% of students fear misuse by their classmates. There is a clear gap in evaluation — half of students would be in favor of AI-assisted correction feedback, while only 19% of teachers use it. Only 30% of students believe that the institutional use of AI meets their expectations, and 12% of teachers see it as a threat to their role.

The question, the board leadership summarizes, is no longer whether students and faculty are using AI — they are — but whether institutions are making deliberate decisions about its place in teaching, assessment, and academic requirements.