Have agents complete online coursework for students
Students reportedly direct AI agents to log into Canvas and Blackboard to take quizzes, watch lectures, write papers and post in discussions.
What they did
Per Futurism's summary of a New York Times report, students tell an AI agent to log into Canvas or Blackboard as them. The agent runs in the background. It completes quizzes, watches lecture videos, writes papers, and posts in discussions as the student, who does something else meanwhile.
How it went
The NYT found ChatGPT, Gemini and Grammarly would not refuse to write a whole paper. None of the AI companies stop agents from logging into these platforms. Professors say they cannot stop it. The article gives no completion or grade figures.
Worth knowing
This is academic cheating. Professors are responding with in-person assessment, device bans, and ending honor-code exams, so it carries real misconduct risk.
Labels
It completes quizzes, watches lecture videos, writes papers, and posts in discussions as the student, who does something else meanwhile.
students tell an AI agent to log into Canvas or Blackboard as them.
It completes quizzes, watches lecture videos, writes papers, and posts in discussions as the student, who does something else meanwhile.
It completes quizzes, watches lecture videos, writes papers, and posts in discussions as the student, who does something else meanwhile.
Per Futurism's summary of a New York Times report, students tell an AI agent to log into Canvas or Blackboard as them.
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Details
- Agents
- custom-built or unnamed agent
- Source
- other
- Source date
- undated
- Accounts
- 1
- In registry since
- Oct 12, 2026