Outsmarting AI in the classroom
Kelly deVos
The easiest way to cheat on a college exam in 2026 isn’t to sneak in notes or glance at a neighbor’s paper. It’s to take a photo. Upload the test to ChatGPT, Claude or any number of generative artificial intelligence, or AI, tools, and within seconds you’ve got something polished and coherent. No struggle, no thinking and maybe no learning. For universities, that’s not just a new form of cheating. It’s an existential problem. At Arizona State University, where AI adoption has been encouraged , t