AI RESEARCH
Beyond Tool Adoption: A Practical Five-Stage Developmental Continuum for AI Literacy in Higher Education
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2606.00038v1 Announce Type: cross Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy is increasingly recognized as a foundational competency for all university graduates. Yet students' engagement with AI tools often clusters at two problematic extremes: avoidance driven by fear, mistrust, ethical concern, or lack of access, and uncritical reliance that produces fluent output while masking misunderstanding.