UNAM study finds 85% of students use generative AI for academics

The UNAM numbers put hard data behind something many suspected: in higher education, generative AI has already gone mainstream. When 80‑plus percent of students and a large majority of faculty are using these tools for information search and coursework, AI stops being a fringe aid and becomes part of the de facto learning stack. That has two implications for the race to AGI. First, it massively scales real‑world usage data that can be fed back into model and product training loops, especially in Spanish—a language still under‑served by many frontier models. Second, it accelerates cultural normalisation: a generation of graduates will expect AI‑augmented work by default.