Professor admits she's given up enforcing her zero-tolerance AI cheating policy
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-15
A university professor confessed on X that while her syllabus still declares zero tolerance for AI cheating, she has stopped enforcing it — with 120 students, she simply lacks the time and institutional support to do that work, meaning students who likely did zero thinking may still pass. Economist Paul Novosad, quoting her post, says he feels it too: students who want to torpedo their futures by cheating with AI face fewer obstacles than ever before. The exchange highlights how AI is breaking traditional academic assessment — policies exist on paper, but enforcement has collapsed.
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