Cheating With AI Is Cheating Yourself

Professor Notterman hit the nail on the head with his fear that these “tools” turn professors into cops and students into suspects by making it so easy (and tempting) to cheat on assignments. His concession to adapt evaluating measures like essays and quizzes to contexts where it won’t be possible to cheat is probably prudent, unfortunately. I think any Princeton student who uses these products to circumvent actual learning, the scholarly work of learning to become a critical citizen of the world, is cheating first and foremost himself. Professor Robert Gehl from York University in Toronto put it best: “GenAI can simulate all of the steps: It can summarize readings, pull out key concepts, draft text, and even generate ideas for discussion. But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you.”