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Because college and university faculty members exercise discretion when addressing their students’ misuse of artificial Intelligence (AI), the same and similar violations can result in radically different disciplinary...

Mashable, a globally recognized platform for digital culture news, turned to the LLF National Law Firm’s Student Defense Team when it wanted to understand why college students are hiring lawyers when they’re accused...

The line between academic assistance and systemic cheating is disappearing faster than ever. A new wave of AI “homework agents” can now log directly into platforms like Canvas to watch lectures, participate in...

Excessive and unauthorized use of artificial intelligence tools is a hot topic at colleges and universities across the country these days. Students must often walk a fine line to use AI to provide legitimate guidance for their...

Although AI has been readily used by the public for more than 4 years, many private schools and colleges are still struggling to define Acceptable Usage of AI in the academic setting. Unfortunately, students are getting caught in...

A recent article from The Cuestonian captures a problem students across the country are now facing: being accused of using artificial intelligence even when they insist the work is their own. The story describes students who feel...

Students are being told to use technology to succeed, while at the same time being warned that the same technology could get them accused of misconduct. That contradiction is creating a growing problem on campuses, and it’s...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping higher education, and professors and students don’t always agree on its appropriate use. As faculty members debate the ethical and practical impact of the new technology, college and...

Artificial intelligence is entering classrooms — and with it comes a new challenge: students being accused of cheating based on unreliable technology. Across the country, schools are using AI detection tools to flag assignments...

If generative AI tools can write like humans, it stands to reason that humans can write like generative AI tools. That is the point at the heart of a lawsuit filed by a University of Michigan student who claims her work was...

Adelphi University student Orion Newby won a groundbreaking lawsuit after being falsely accused of using artificial intelligence to write a history essay. A state Supreme Court judge reversed the disciplinary measures against...

David Mingay thought he had AI figured out. Like many professors today, he was obsessed with spotting AI-generated work in student essays. He referred suspected cheats to the academic misconduct office like clockwork. Then the...

For humans to hallucinate, they must typically be severely deprived of water, on a mind-altering substance, or suffering from mental illness. For artificial intelligence to hallucinate, it must only exist. AI’s capacity to...

Generative artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming the go-to method for students to conduct research in both high school and college. The vast majority of students are genuinely excited about the prospect of using AI and...

AI tools have fundamentally changed education as we know it. And as much as some people wish we could put the genie back in the bottle, we can’t. Campuses nationwide are still in the midst of debates about what...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a great tool for education, but there’s potential for its misuse at the K-12 level. Many might assume the only problem is students who use AI to cheat on their assignments. However, there...

In the first part of this series on the Chronicle of Higher Ed‘s roundtable on how colleges and universities are adapting to the new world ushered in by AI, we looked at the different ways faculty and administrators are...

Since its release in 2022, ChatGPT and a cadre of similar AI tools have upended traditional college-level teaching and learning practices. As we head into year four of the AI upheaval, the editors of the esteemed Chronicle of...

Those were the days. Students did all of the assigned reading and worked thoughtfully on their assignments days before they were due, never, ever, turning to the internet for cheap and easy answers. You saw them every day in the...

AI in the classroom isn’t new. But this latest wave is different. A new report shows how “agentic browsers” like OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet can now navigate Canvas, Coursera, and other university...