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The conversation around AI in schools keeps growing, but one thing remains constant: Educators are still deeply concerned about cheating and plagiarism.

Such student misbehavior, of course, long precedes the arrival of artificial intelligence. Many of us will remember a time when math teachers feared the calculator would undermine students’ learning. Now, in the rapidly changing world of AI, as many educators and educational leaders work to keep pace, concerns about academic integrity remain top of mind.

It goes without explaining why educators would be concerned that students might replace their authentic work with easily generated AI submissions. However, research out of Stanford University indicates cheating was reported at a rate of about 70 percent before generative AI and didn’t significantly change after its launch, according to a 2024 report in the journal Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence.