Constraint-driven AI coaching in academic entrepreneurship education: Evidence on entrepreneurial readiness and orientation under responsible design

Scholars also highlight evidence that frequent use of large language models may be associated with cognitive decline and reduced performance, particularly when they mediate judgment and decision-making.

This concern becomes particularly acute in university-wide entrepreneurship education, where Gen-AI can scale personalised guidance but also encourage cognitive offloading and premature convergence. The central question we address in this contribution is how universities can deploy Gen-AI to augment entrepreneurial learning while preserving learner agency and keeping responsibility for reasoning, judgement, and ethics with human learners rather than with the system.</p><p dir="ltr">Entrepreneurship education can unintentionally privilege validation over transformation, thereby encouraging incremental refinement of ideas rather than deeper reframing that can generate novel value propositions [5].