From Inside Higher Ed: Three-plus years after the debut of ChatGPT sparked new academic integrity fears, artificial intelligence–enabled tools can do far more than write a student’s research paper. These days, autonomous AI agents can complete entire online courses—and it’s raising questions about the future of teaching and learning. Earlier this week, Advait Paliwal—a 22-year-old tech entrepreneur who dropped out of the computer science master’s program at Brown University in 2024—launched Einstein, an agentic AI tool specifically designed to connect with the popular learning management system Canvas.
“Einstein is an AI with a computer,” the product website explained when it first went live a few days ago. “He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework—automatically.” Einstein can help with any subject, including math, physics, computer science, history, literature and economics, and even keeps working when students are asleep...
While such promise may be alluring to some overwhelmed or unmotivated students, Einstein’s release this week is intensifying discussion among faculty about policy, pedagogy and the purpose of higher education in the age of agentic AI...
NOTE: After this story was published, Paliwal said he received a cease-and-desist letter from Instructure, which owns Canvas, and has since taken down Einstein’s website.
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/26/agentic-ai-can-complete-whole-courses-now.
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