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Posted on 07/04/2026 2:09:52 PM PDT by karpov
With another finals season in the books, prohibited AI assistance continues to be a problem at universities. It may not come as a surprise that students attempt to cheat using AI. What may surprise some is the ease of access to complex cheating tools that the AI era has given to students. When presented with the harsh reality of a technological arms race between individual tech-savvy students and the bloated college bureaucracy, the need for a return to more traditional testing methods becomes apparent.
Most universities use Learning Management Systems (LMSs) like Canvas and Blackboard to administer and collect assignments and exams. During the academic year, students with social media are bombarded with advertisements for software that integrates AI to help them cheat not only on essays but also on examinations. These advertisements promise students the ability to cheat without detection.
Software companies like Respondus claim to offer services that counteract such attempts to cheat, but do they? Functions like lockdown browsers and screen recording are designed to prevent AI-enabled cheating. Faculty and school administrators, however, must manually enable these lockdown functions and review footage. Even for test administrators who have enough follow-through and know-how to utilize these tools, little stops students from simply using a second device to evade detection.
One harsh reality of the AI world is that academic integrity policies are nearly impossible to enforce in a virtual environment. And even if they were, the pace of technological development can only lead to an arms race that university systems are already losing.
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The reason I got into computers was because my handwriting is so bad.
This is not difficult. Final exams in person with no technology.
Do the students know the material or not?
If they prefer typing essays, give them a laptop with only a text editor app.
“””It may not come as a surprise that students attempt to cheat using AI””””
If they cheat as students, what will they do in the workplace?
“”””One harsh reality of the AI world is that academic integrity policies are nearly impossible to enforce in a virtual environment. And even if they were, the pace of technological development can only lead to an arms race that university systems are already losing.””””
And I would contend that today’s university professors are more than happy to graduate the best cheaters so those cheaters can infiltrate the work environment.
My school used a set of engineer-only physics courses in their program to weed out potential engineers from what should be business majors.
You were allowed a calculator and a full 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper with notes into exams and most folks still failed.
I was always impressed that the profs could keep the center of the bell curve in the 50-60 range.
Fun days.
This is true only insofar as the ability of the student without benefit of the tools. Yet the employer is looking for students who will add value WITH the tools. IOW, it is an effective testing method using a specious metric.
My university finals in the 60s involved a pen/pencil and something called a ‘blue book’. Poor handwriting? I guess use what we called ‘printing’ rather than cursive. Back in those dark days one was expected to be able to read and write to attend college.
I had a Business Calculus teacher who gave us every opportunity to get a good grade. It was his central focus. It’s the only math class where I did well.
Only your handwriting?? BTW, even your handwriting, alone, reveals so much about you.
Simple solution indeed - Blue Book and pen. Exam in class with professor/proctor.
You must be psycho... I mean psychic.
Luckily there are too many smart people in my industry to weed out phony engineers. But... in my experience of 25 years now in aviation. Engineers were not the type to cheat.
Right now there is a big problem in the courts with lawyers using "AI" to write their arguments for them. Tiny problem is that the stuff the computer comes up with is not reliable. At all. Cases that do not exist are cited. Rulings that never happened are included.
Judges are not amused.
When it happens in law it is correctable and a bit funny.
When it happens in engineering or medicine, people can die.
And that is not funny at all.
I'm in aviation - cheating kills people.
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