From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard College Dean David J. Deming acknowledged that far more students are likely using artificial intelligence than the College’s disciplinary system has been able to detect, saying he hopes to “push harder” on the issue in the years ahead. Speaking at a fireside chat for Academic Integrity Week on Thursday and at an open forum earlier in the week, Deming described AI as an urgent challenge facing the College — but stopped short of proposing a standardized policy to govern its use, pointing to the difficulty of writing rules that work across courses as different as Computer Science 50 and an upper-level English seminar. “The biggest challenge, from my perspective, with AI is that it blurs the boundaries of what we would call cheating or academic integrity in ways that actually make it really hard to write policy around,” Deming said Thursday.
Deming said the clearest cases of AI misuse — students submitting AI-generated work with hallucinated citations or accidentally including the chatbot prompt in their submission — tend to be the ones that reach the Honor Council, the student and faculty body tasked with reviewing potential violations of academic integrity policies. “But for every one of those, there are many cases where students are using AI in a more subtle way,” he said.
...Assistant Dean of Harvard College Dwight Fee, who moderated the fireside chat and has served on the Honor Council, said the body requires clear evidence of AI misuse before pursuing a case. “If we have to get into guessing, it just doesn’t become a case,” Fee said. Asked to estimate how widespread AI misuse is among students, Deming cited a survey by the Harvard AI safety group that found 88 percent of students were using AI at least weekly. He said he expected the share to be higher now...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/3/deming-ai-usage-classroom/.
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