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Brett DeJager, Assistant professor of psychology and education, University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic

Teachers are worried about students cheating with AI, but my survey suggests the deeper issue is learning

Students cheating while using AI is a common concern among educators, but not the only one. Phiwath Jittamas/iStock/Getty Images Plus

The risk of students using AI to cheat tends to get a lot of attention – with good reason.

A student can simply copy and paste a prompt into a chatbot and receive a polished paragraph, a five-paragraph essay, a lab summary or a reading response almost instantly. Teachers may then be left wondering whether the work reflects the student’s thinking and actual work or what the chatbot generated.

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