College Students Deploy AI Agents to Finish 100% of Online Courses

3 articles · Updated · Futurism · Aug 13

Students are now using AI agents to log into Canvas and Blackboard, take quizzes, watch lectures, write papers and even join class discussions as if they were the student.
The New York Times found major tools students favor—ChatGPT, Gemini and Grammarly—would not refuse requests to write full papers, and AI companies have not required agents to identify themselves on learning platforms.
Professors say online classes leave them with few defenses because supervised exams and oral presentations are harder to enforce, while university AI partnerships can blur whether such use is allowed or banned.
Some schools are tightening rules instead: the University of Chicago Law School barred phones, tablets and laptops in first-year classes, and Princeton ended its century-old unsupervised Honor Code exam tradition after an AI cheating scandal.