From Newsgroup: alt.education

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-widespread-ai-misuse-higher-rethink.html

Widespread AI misuse forces higher education to rethink assessment

Large numbers of college students are now using artificial
intelligence to completerCoand cheat onrCotheir assignments,
suggesting that colleges and universities need to change
how they are evaluating students, finds new Cornell research.
An analysis of survey responses from more than 95,000
students at 20 public research universities in the U.S.
finds about one-third regularly used generative AI (GenAI),
such as ChatGPT or other models to produce text, video
or code, when completing assignments, and 9% had used
it to cheat.

. . .

Likely a lot more than 9 percent ......

At least if you use a calculator for math you
have to know what to put into the thing, the
exact operations needed. "AI" can now work on
the most fuzzy mere descriptions of what's
wanted.

At some point, something or someone is going to
collapse the AI infrastructure. What we're left
with are 'experts' who aren't 'expert' at
ANYTHING beyond asking AI how/what.

Gimme the slide-rule 50s engineers/scientists.
They built the modern world, got us to the moon
and beyond.

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