{"id":103186,"date":"2026-09-15T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/?p=103186"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:32:05","slug":"orefile-kolobe-wants-his-peers-to-use-ai-honestly-and-now-he-has-a-global-platform-to-say-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/orefile-kolobe-wants-his-peers-to-use-ai-honestly-and-now-he-has-a-global-platform-to-say-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Orefile Kolobe wants his peers to use AI honestly, and now he has a global platform to say so"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"103186\" class=\"elementor elementor-103186\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-620ded3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"620ded3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60527a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60527a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Orefile Jacob Kolobe, using AI well has always been a question of honesty. The second-year Bachelor of Arts (General) student at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sol Plaatje University (SPU)<\/span><\/a> has now been selected as a GPTZero Brand Ambassador, a role that will see him championing AI literacy and academic integrity among his peers.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kolobe earned the position after completing GPTZero&#8217;s four-week Teaching Responsibly with AI series, receiving a certificate and then applying to join the ambassador programme. GPTZero is an AI-detection and writing-verification platform used in academic and publishing settings, and its ambassadors are students and educators interested in how institutions can adopt AI honestly and responsibly.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Kolobe, it is about more than a title.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI want to help fellow students use AI with confidence and honesty. AI isn&#8217;t going away, so the real skill is learning to work with it in a way that still values our own thinking and our own voice.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an ambassador, he will help raise awareness around responsible AI use, share student perspectives that feed into how the platform develops, and connect with a wider community grappling with the same questions SPU is asking: how do we hold onto integrity, curiosity and honest work in the age of generative AI?<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kolobe hopes to host a short AI-literacy session for the SPU community in due course, open to students, tutors, peer mentors and educators, exploring how to read AI-detector results, AI policy in the classroom, and the link between media literacy and AI literacy. Details will be shared once the arrangements are confirmed.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He describes himself as a dedicated and ambitious student with a love for the humanities, education, entrepreneurship and the creative arts, and is passionate about writing, teaching, and using his skills to make a difference in his community.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Orefile Jacob Kolobe, using AI well has always been a question of honesty. 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