Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

By Clay Shirky, The New York Times (from August 26, 2025)
I remember the moment I knew my approach to student use of artificial intelligence was not working. Early in a meeting at N.Y.U's Abu Dhabi campus last fall, a philosophy professor, arms crossed over his chest, told me he'd tried one of the strategies my office had suggested - talking with his students about the ways A.I. could interfere with their learning - and it hadn't worked.
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