ai. cases & issues

Cases

Threads

educational impact of AI

“AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions. The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise, short-circuiting decision-making, and isolating people from each other.” (Hartzog & Silbey 2025)

aigiarism (research)

Başer, M. Y., Kozak, M., & Erdoğan, İ. H. (2026). Do we worry about the use of artificial intelligence and plagiarism? Students’ AI-giarism behaviour through the fraud triangle. The Internet and Higher Education, 69, 101071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2025.101071

Drisko, J. W. (2025). AIgiarism: Computer Generated Text, Plagiarism, and How to Address it in Teaching. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 45(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2024.2433795

Hoomanfard, M., & Shamsi, Y. (2025). Generative AI in dissertation writing: L2 doctoral students’ self-reported use, AI-giarism, and perceived training needs. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 78, 101570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101570

Tang, B. L. (2024). AIgiarism is plagiarism: Artificial intelligence can (be perceived to) plagiarize and can also be plagiarized. Science Editing, 12(1), 81–83. https://doi.org/10.6087/kcse.346

Waqas, M., Hania, A., & Chunyan, X. U. (2025). Understanding AIgiarism in higher education: The lens of general AI attitudes and moral disengagement. Studies in Higher Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2497479

what universities think

Hartzog, W., & Silbey, J. M. (2025). How AI Destroys Institutions (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. 5870623). Social Science Research Network. https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5870623

cases in media

Maiberg, E. (2026, February 17). “Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:” Inside an AI-Powered Private School. 404 Media. https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/