The multifaceted functions of ChatGPT in the contemporary international system have influenced traditional social infrastructures of states where the dramatic rise of smartphone culture has become a primary support for promoting artificial intelligence (AI) tools. It altered the conventional roles of individuals and organizations in societies while revolutionizing their digital communication capabilities with the support of AI-centric advanced technologies.

The basic function of ChatGPT is to disseminate information with the support of online data while enabling its users to develop instant access to a variety of content. Its diverse operations offer several benefits, such as finding quick answers and varying explanations of issues. The learning provided by this AI-supported application makes it convenient for users to remain updated and well-informed about the multilevel developments of the international system. Its increasing worldwide appreciation provided several digital opportunities to the states, which could not be divorced from certain challenges.

This AI-supported application acts as an efficient discussion partner and a brainstorming companion for its users.

Besides admiring its positive features, the discussion on the growing interconnections between traditional states’ societal structures can only be completed with an understanding of the role of ChatGPT in education.

The use of ChatGPT in education has become an opportunity for different academic communities because this AI-supported application acts as an efficient discussion partner and a brainstorming companion for its users. It provides its users with multiple services, presenting different ideas, giving several suggestions, and helping them understand the international system’s emerging perspectives and its various evolutionary phases.

The increasing reliance of academic communities on the multidimensional services of ChatGPT has affected the traditional education system of various states.

The growing popularity of these AI-centric digital platforms in the higher studies of Pakistan has dramatically increased its users across the country due to multiple benefits such as enhancing diverse and interactive learning, availing free services of personalized assistance, getting resource efficiency, and accessing information in the required languages and based on desired formats. Its valuable addition to Pakistan’s education system has raised the satisfaction levels of university students, and its interdisciplinary nature has made it an instant source of supplementary learning in higher education.

The challenge of academic integrity has engulfed the entire mechanism of higher education in the country

This AI application’s ability to provide the required information in multiple languages allowed students to use it comfortably, even in their native languages. In this way, the growing societal admiration of AI-centric studying tools in Pakistan has become a common practice in the country’s higher education institutions. It has started reflecting a considerable positive impact on the traditional education structure of remote or underserved areas where access to advanced education resources is a significant challenge under numerous logistical constraints and financial pressures.

However, the challenge of academic integrity has engulfed the entire mechanism of higher education in the country, where students commonly prefer to use the interdisciplinary functions of ChatGPT. It helps a student produce various content related to their major assignments and research projects without estimating its worse impacts on the culture of research and development. Consequently, the country’s mainstream education institutions have started witnessing a high number of plagiarism cases. This factor has compromised the originality of existing research work and undermined the values of critical thinking and innovative ideas in higher studies. Several reports are internationally published about the rising cases of AI-generated plagiarism in academic research due to the lack of sufficient digital ethics in societies where Pakistan’s low literacy rate is a significant case.

The question of academic integrity in Pakistan has already become a serious national concern due to a persistent quantitative rise in research publications and academic books in the country. The race to secure high ratings in the publication has been fostered by the arrival of AI tools in academia, and their widespread usage has augmented this crisis. It facilitated higher study students of diverse disciplines to copy the AI-generated research arguments and descriptions of various phenomena in their major research projects under different degree programs.

Several reports are internationally published about the rising cases of AI-generated plagiarism

It is pertinent to mention here the critical role of AI-generated software applications in accessing online information without considering their contexts and validities. The higher study students generally rely on the arguments and analysis generated by the AI tools without verifying their resource authenticities and validity. This scenario considerably damages the fundamental values of academic integrity, parallel to underestimating the scope of innovative research in society. Thus, the diminishing academic contribution of the country in innovative research and critical thinking has marginalized the analytical and professional skills in higher studies.

The lack of adequate awareness of the civilized patterns of the emerging digital world is the primary factor raising the cases of academic dishonesty and the high rate of plagiarism in education. It has raised the citations of fabricated information and false facts in academic research, parallel to degrading the ethical standards and moral commitments of academic communities in the country. In other words, there is no harm in saying that the increasing misuse of AI research tools such as ChatGPT has targeted the fundamental concept of research worldwide, especially in the states with abstruse digital practices in society.

It helps a student produce various content related to their major assignments and research projects without estimating its worse impacts on the culture of research and development.

Pakistan could be treated as one of the leading exceptional cases due to a swift transformation of its society in the digital domain without substantial knowledge of the digital world and an inadequately developed digital structure of society. In this scenario, the widespread promotion of ChatGPT in Pakistan’s society raised the misuse of this AI tool due to the growing overreliance of education communities on it. This overreliance has eventually compromised the core values of academic integrity in Pakistan.

Therefore, the government is required to create a careful examination of countrywide digital governance with a clear national vision based on a rational approach. Adopting a conceptually robust and practically applicable legislative framework could help improve Pakistan’s existing IT culture. The government’s formal decision-makers need to align the national IT vision with the emerging realities of AI technologies while accepting them as an essential part of the contemporary international system.

The quest for upholding and aligning the country’s IT culture with the newly emerging world of AI-supported digital realities also requires the government to focus on various awareness campaigns. Launching such a campaign related to the spread of AI-centric ethical guidelines has become a pressing need of the nation and its leading education institutions. Additionally, a combination of strict academic policies and the formulation of new assessment mechanisms in academics could help government authorities achieve their desired objectives. The development of new assessment mechanisms in higher studies could not be ensured with the support of existing plagiarism detection digital applications. It has made supporting the idea of academic integrity a difficult task for the government. Launching an updated and improved version of digital governance could let the Pakistan positively integrate AI-centric digital tools with the ongoing education system to support and preserve the country’s core values of academic integrity.