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Tom Stoneham Jul 4, 2023

We have spotted quite a few students using generative AI in their essays this summer and applied standard academic misconduct proceedings, though in most cases the work was so bad they would've failed anyway.

Today I learned of one whose use was sufficiently extensive that they will fail their degree.

I am wondering if this is *the first time a student has failed a whole degree for using AI*? Would love to hear about other cases. If you want to tell me in confidence, my Session ID is in my Bio

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Andrew Knighton Jul 5, 2023

@tomstoneham I'm not an academic myself, but there are several in my life, & every single one of them has had to deal with AI cheating this year. I was talking with one guy last night who said that his department is making plans to shift its assessment back toward in person exams, because AI is such a big problem.

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Tom Stoneham Jul 5, 2023

@gibbondemon
That would be really sad. In person exams are known to be biassed towards socially privileged and neurotypical students.

Making that regressive shift would mean the white, male, neurotypical bias of AI had won even when it wasn't being used!

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Andrew Knighton

@tomstoneham Absolutely. As in many other areas, I think that AI is exaggerating flaws in existing systems - in the case of educational assessment, the fact that our assessment tools don't actually measure what we want to measure, just an approximation of it. But because people are in a panic, and dealing with the real problems would take a lot of time and work, we'll see knee jerk reactions instead.