The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin

That's what the software concluded about a student's paper. One of the professors in the academic program I direct had come across this finding and asked me what to do with it. Then another one saw the same result--100 percent AI--for a different paper by that student, and also wondered: What does this mean? The problem breaks down into more problems: whether it's possible to know for certain that a student used AI, what it even means to "use" AI for writing papers, and when that use amounts to cheating. The software that had flagged our student's papers was also multilayered: Canvas, our courseware system, was running Turnitin, a popular plagiarism-detection service, which had recently installed a new AI-detection algorithm.