GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a student using a GenAI agent imposter to complete an online course.

You are teaching an asynchronous online course. One of thousands such courses. You discover that one student has engaged a GenAI agent imposter to take the course in their place. The GenAI imposter reads and responds to the course readings; it takes the quizzes; it completes and submits the culminating project. Algorithmically, without any participation from the student. What might this mean for the student? ...for you? ...for your institution?

People in this episode

Hosts: Carol Arcus, Neil Andersen

Topics covered

• education
• technology
• ethics
• online learning
• artificial intelligence

Keywords

• GenAI
• imposter
• online course
• ethics
• education
• artificial intelligence
• student engagement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: institution

Products: GenAI agent imposter

Places: asynchronous online course

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