Intelligent bodies become "artifacts for skipping classes"? Some American students use AI to complete entire online courses on their own behalf

IT House News on August 15. According to a report by the New York Times on August 10, as agent models become more and more popular, some American students are no longer satisfied with letting chatbots help check answers, but directly hand over the entire online course to AI agents. AI can complete course tasks for students in the background, while students themselves use their time to browse their phones and play games. AI cheating has developed from writing homework to almost "taking classes", exposing the problem that online education is more difficult to prevent cheating than physical classes. Offline courses can confirm whether students have truly mastered knowledge through examinations, oral presentations, etc., but it is difficult to use the same methods in online courses. Most activities in online classes are completed on the screen, so students can have AI agents log in to learning platforms such as Canvas and Blackboard to take tests for themselves, watch course videos, write papers, and even pretend to be students to participate in discussions. IT House learned that AI companies have taken few measures to prevent this behavior. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grammarly, which are most commonly used by students, will not deny requests to complete the entire paper for students. These companies also did not prevent AI models from logging into learning platforms such as Canvas and Blackboard, nor did they respond to requests from educators that models should self-identify when used on these platforms. Some of the companies’ reasons sound far-fetched. Perplexity, which develops AI browsers, said in a statement to the New York Times that requiring AI agents to identify themselves on learning platforms puts students’ privacy and security at risk. Karen Costa, who has been teaching online courses for 20 years, recalled asking, "Am I just interacting with a robot now?" Carol Sewell of the California State University system said: "I didn't get any guidance on how to dissuade students from using AI. What I got was more opportunities to learn how to use AI." It is worth mentioning that the California State University Department