AI Gemini has been enabled on all student’s computers at Big Spring High School as of this school year. This concerns people as enabling AI and encouraging students to use it could lead to a higher rate of cheating and dishonesty.
According to “The Rise of AI Tools Forces Schools To Reconsider What Counts As Cheating,” a teacher said, “The cheating is off the charts. It’s the worst I’ve seen in my entire career,” says Casey Cuny, who has taught English for 23 years.” As AI continues to grow and get more intelligent, the more students will try to use it to cheat. This is very concerning for student’s education since they won’t be absorbing the information and understanding it, they will just turn to AI to do it for them.
With Big Spring enabling AI on school computers, there are many concerns. If students turn to AI to do all the work for them, they won’t be learning anything from class. They could get a perfect score without even doing anything, which means that when students graduate, they will not understand the skills they learned in school and apply them into real life situations. This can set students up for failure in adulthood. According to the article, “Classrooms are adapting to the use of artificial intelligence states, “Among adolescents, the use of generative AI is already widespread. Of the 7 in 10 who reported using at least one such tool in a 2024 Common Sense Media survey of 1,045 teenagers ages 13 to 18, homework help was the most common reason.”
It is very alarming that schools all over the United States are encouraging students to use AI. According to “How teachers say they’re embracing AI in the classroom” states, “While some schools initially banned tools like ChatGPT over fears of cheating and plagiarism, many educators are now taking a different approach: teaching students how to use AI responsibly, critically and creatively.” This will not work. Some students will use AI being enabled and encouraged as a ticket to cheat any chance they get, and it may start to blur the lines on what is cheating and what is not.
Although AI can have positive features for education like making a practice quiz, help brainstorm ideas, outline an essay, or even generate unique images, these do not make up for the big problem with AI. Academic Dishonesty.
According to “The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating” they state, “Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.” With students using AI to do their work for them, teachers should not be assigning homework, as they would have to assume that students used AI on it and wouldn’t be able to trust that the students did the assignment on their own. Teachers should not be encouraging students to use AI, and Big Spring should not be enabling AI on student’s computers. There should also be more hand written assignments to prevent students cheating using AI.
