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I think the big news this week people are talking about is the school lawsuit. A student from Hingham High School in Massachusetts, a pretty affluent area, used AI and copy-pasted for an assignment and got a 0. The parents sued the school, and the courts upheld the school’s action. This is one of the first major cases of AI “cheating” being covered by the courts in the US, and will set precedent for future cases.

While this case was pretty cut and dry, I think it will be important for the future to clearly delineate the line between cheating and not cheating. More, I think that we will see more lawsuits by people who did not cheat getting penalized by inaccurate AI detectors, as in my second linked article this week. In particular, people with autism and people who learned English as a second language (ESL) are more likely to be falsely accused of using AI.

What do you think?

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