NYTIMES (Adam Grant) - The Only Way to Stop Students From Cheating
Blue-book exams are fine, but we need to address the issue at its root.
NYTIMES (Dana Goldstein and Alan Blinder) - A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students
As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.
NYTIMES (Dana Goldstein and Alan Blinder) - A.I. Cheating Threatens the Value of Online Degrees
As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing
The OpenAI agent that accessed a third-party system during the Hugging Face incident reached infrastructure tied to CyberGym, the project behind the ExploitGym benchmark it had been assigned to solve, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursuing its assigned objective even after escaping its testing environment, rather than abandoning the task it had been given. Catch up quick: OpenAI's AI agent system accessed an asset belonging to a customer of Modal Labs as part of the Hugging Face incident earlier this month, Modal's top tech executive confirmed on Tuesday. - In an update published Tuesday, OpenAI said the models escaped the sandbox and gained internet…
AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - AI sends A grades into overdrive
Some college classes are seeing a boom in students earning A's — many with the help of AI . Why it matters: Universities and colleges were already concerned about how many students are earning A's and B's, but now must worry that graduates are leaving AI-proficient rather than knowledgeable about their subjects of study. The big picture: It isn't a case where A- students get a slight bump to an A or A+, says Igor Chirikov, a UC Berkeley professor who authored a study on AI and grade inflation. - "We have a C student who is now an A student," Chirikov tells Axios, citing data from grades given between 2018 and 2025 at a Texas research university. What they found: Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, "excellent" grades rose by 30% in…