> Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course [at UC Irvine] had used artificial intelligence tools, contrary to my explicit policy, to write their final take-home exams. (Ironically, the course was titled Contemporary Moral Problems: The Value of Human Life.) I had asked them about some very recent work in philosophy, parts of which happened to share titles with entirely different ideas in medieval theology. You can guess which topics the students ended up “writing” about.

At what point should a university just mass-fail such students?

At what point should employers dismiss any college degree earned after (say) 2020 as diploma-mill fiction?